A major machine maker that shows the future of corporate capital investment Orders received in June fell 1.5% from the previous month, falling for the first time in four months.

However, the Cabinet Office has left the keynote judgment of machine orders unchanged, with "there is a movement to pick up" based on the trends of the past few months.

According to the machinery orders statistics released by the Cabinet Office, the amount of orders received from domestic companies by major machinery manufacturers in June was 852.4 billion yen, excluding ships and electric power, which are subject to large fluctuations.



Orders fell 1.5% from the previous month, the first decline in four months.



However, looking at the breakdown,


▽ manufacturing industry increased orders for production machinery such as machine tools by 3.6% from the previous month, and


▽ non-manufacturing industry also

increased orders for

construction machinery and railroad vehicles from the previous month. It exceeded 3.8%.



The Cabinet Office says that the total amount of orders received is statistically negative as a result of adjusting based on seasonal factors because the statistics have a large monthly fluctuation range. Based on the trend of the months, we have left it as it is, "there is a movement of recovery".



Regarding the outlook for the future, the Cabinet Office said, "We must carefully look at the impact of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, but there is a move to resume investment that had been suppressed so far even in the non-manufacturing industry, which has been slow to recover compared to the manufacturing industry. You can see it. "