Update: Japan Week Ahead: Bank of Japan Set to Hike Rates amid Easing Uncertainty over Trade Rows, Focus on Governor Ueda Remarks on Estimated Neutral Rate
–Adds Context to Economy Watchers Survey in Paragraphs 15-17 (MaceNews) – Here are the key Japanese economic events for the coming week, with the market focus on what the governor of the Bank of Japan will say about a widely expected interest rate hike and how much more the bank should lift the overnight rate […]
Preview: Forecasters See Japan Exports Up 2.6% on Year in November with Boost from Weak Yen
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 20250850 JST (2350 GMT/1850 EST Tuesday, Dec. 16) The Ministry of Finance releases November trade.Mace News median: exports +2.6% y/y (range: +0.4% to +5.0%) vs. Oct. +3.6%; imports +0.5% y/y (range: -1.4% to +3.9%) vs. Oct +0.7%; trade surplus ¥47.60 billion (range: a deficit of ¥17.00 billion to a surplus of ¥128.30 […]
Preview: Forecasters See Japanese Machinery Orders Showing Retreat in October
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 20250850 JST (2350 GMT/1850 EST Tuesday, Dec. 16) The Cabinet Office releases October machinery orders.Mace News median: core orders -2.6% m/m (range: -5.0% to +2.7%) vs. Sept +4.2%; +3.6% y/y (range: +0.6% to +9.1%) vs. Sept +11.6% By Chikafumi Hodo TOKYO (MaceNews) – Japan’s core machinery orders, a key leading indicator of […]
Preview: Forecasters See Japan’s Producer Prices Up 2.7% in November from Year Ago, Unchanged from October
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025 0850 JST (2350 GMT/1850 EST Tuesday, Dec. 9) The Bank of Japan releases the November corporate goods price index. Mace News median: CGPI +2.7% y/y (range: +2.5% to +2.9%) vs. Oct +2.7%; +0.3% m/m (range: +0.2% to +0.5%) vs. Oct +0.4% By Chikafumi Hodo TOKYO (MaceNews) – Japan’s corporate goods price […]
Japan Week Ahead: BOJ Governor Ueda Speaks to Business Leaders amid Expectations for Rate Hike in December or January
–October Household Spending Forecast to Show Only Modest Rise as Inflation for Daily Necessities Continues to Bite By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Here are the key Japanese economic events for the coming week: Ahead of the Dec. 18-19 policy meeting, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will deliver a speech in Nagoya, central Japan, to […]
Japan Govt Keeps Modest Economic Recovery Outlook, Downplays 1st GDP Decline In 6 Qtrs in Q3, Noting Resilient Consumption, Capex
Japan Sticks to Modest Economic Recovery Outlook, Downplaying First GDP Contraction in 6 Quarters in Q3, Pointing to Resilient Consumers, Capex By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Japanese government policymakers continue to see the economy on a modest recovery track, downplaying the first GDP contraction in six quarters in the July-September period amid the Trump tariff storms […]
Japan Weekahead: Government Likely to Keep Modest Economic Recovery View, Another BOJ Board Member Speaks amid Rate Hike Expectations
–US Tariffs Seen Denting Factory Output, Retail Sales Remain Weak By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Here are the key Japanese economic events for the coming week. In the final quarter of 2025, the drag from the protectionist U.S. trade policy is becoming more pronounced in some data including international trade, compared to the previous quarter. […]
Preview: Japan Q3 GDP Likely to Contract as Exports, Housing and Inventories Weigh; Underlying Demand Remains Steady
0850 JST (2350GMT/1850 EST Sunday, Nov. 16) Cabinet Office releases preliminary GDP for July-SeptemberMace News median: -0.7% q/q (range -1.0% to -0.3%) vs. Q2 revised +0.5%; -2.7% annualized (range -3.9% to -1.2%) vs. Q2 revised +2.2%; +0.4% y/y (range +0.1% to +0.8%) vs. Q2 revised +1.7% By Chikafumi Hodo TOKYO (MaceNews) – Japan’s real gross […]
Conservative Ruling Party Leader Takaichi Elected Japan’s First Woman Prime Minister, Picks Former MOF Official Katayama as Finance Minister
By Chikafumi Hodo TOKYO (MaceNews) – Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi was sworn in as the country’s first woman prime minister on Tuesday, shifting the gear to the right on the political spectrum and inheriting the decades-old task to achieve economic growth that comes with sustained wage hikes and stable inflation. Takaichi, […]
Japan Weekahead: BOJ Board Member Who Called for September Rate Hike Speaks amid Elevated Inflation, Sluggish External Demand
– Diet to Elect Prime Minister after ruling LDP Lost its Small Coalition Partner By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Here are the key Japanese economic and political events for the coming week. Ahead of the Bank of Japan’s policy meeting on Oct. 29-30, one of the two board members who have called for a further […]