Japan’s core private-sector machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 6.2 percent in January from the previous month to 1.059 trillion yen, the first fall in four months, the government said Friday.
But the Cabinet Office left its assessment that core machinery orders are on a rising trend unchanged from the previous month, because the drop in January followed growth in large-lot orders in December.
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