{"id":432278,"date":"2026-06-17T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/japan-april-core-machinery-orders-surge-exports-beat-also\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:54:42","slug":"japan-april-core-machinery-orders-surge-exports-beat-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/japan-april-core-machinery-orders-surge-exports-beat-also\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan April core machinery orders surge, exports beat also"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Japan April core machinery orders<br \/>\n+8.7% m\/m<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nexp +0.9%, prev -9.4%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">+15.6% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nexp +9.3%, prev +5.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Japan May trade balance<br \/>\n-\u00a5378.7B<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nexp -\u00a5564.6B, prev +\u00a5301.9B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Japan May exports<br \/>\n+17.0% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nexp +16.2%, prev +14.8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">To EU +14.5% y\/y<br \/>\n\u2014 to Asia +19.5% y\/y<br \/>\n\u2014 to US +12.5% y\/y<br \/>\n\u2014 to China +17.9% y\/y<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Japan May imports<br \/>\n+12.5% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nexp +12.8%, prev +9.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to come on this separately <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan April core machinery orders +8.7% m\/m exp +0.9%, prev -9.4% +15.6% y\/y exp +9.3%, prev +5.9% Japan May trade balance -\u00a5378.7B exp -\u00a5564.6B, prev +\u00a5301.9B Japan May exports +17.0% y\/y exp&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}