TOKYO :Japan’s core machinery orders rose 13.0 per cent in March from the previous month, government data showed on Thursday.
That compared with a 1.6 per cent decrease estimated by economists in a Reuters poll.
On a year-on-year basis, core orders, a highly volatile data series regarded as a leading indicator of capital spending in the coming six to nine months, grew 8.4 per cent, versus a forecast for a 2.2 per cent contraction, the data showed.
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