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Japan industrial output rises 2.2% in September
Japan’s industrial output rose in September.
It was up 2.2% from the previous month.
The figure compares September with August.
It describes a month-to-month increase, not a year-on-year change.
The figures provided do not show how output changed over a longer period.
No further outlook or next step was given.
Japan’s industrial output rose 2.2 percent in September from the previous month, its first increase in three months.
The rise followed a downwardly revised 2.4 percent contraction in August.
Auto production picked up, while output increased in eight sectors and declined in seven.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry kept its assessment that production “fluctuates indecisively.”
The ministry expects output to rise 5.1 percent in October and 0.8 percent in November.
- Who
- Japan’s industrial sector, according to government data.
- What
- Industrial output rose 2.2 percent from the previous month.
- When
- September; the data was reported Friday.
- Where
- Japan.
- Why
- Auto production picked up.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Industrial output contracted 2.4 percent, according to a downward revision.
Industrial output rose 2.2 percent from the previous month.
The ministry expects industrial output to rise 5.1 percent.
The ministry expects industrial output to rise 0.8 percent.
- Monthly output change
- Up 2.2 percent in September
- Production index
- 104.1, against a 2020 base of 100
- Sectors with output increases
- 8, led by motor vehicles and production machinery
- Sectors with output declines
- 7, including iron, steel and nonferrous metals
- Industrial shipments
- Up 0.6 percent to 101.0 in September
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fluctuates indecisively.