Japan's November Machinery Orders Stall in Worrying Sign Over Business Spending

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US News and World Report - 1/15/2019 - Stanley White - Japan's core machinery orders slowed sharply in November in a sign corporate capital expenditure could lose momentum as a bruising U.S.-China trade war spills into the global economy. The slight 0.02 percent decline month-on-month in core machinery orders, considered a leading indicator of capital expenditure, was well below the median estimate for a 3.5 percent increase and marked a slowdown from a 7.6 percent expansion in October. Read more @ https://money.usnews.com/investing/news ... l-spending