Japan's November machine tool orders rose 15.9% year-on-year

The preliminary report of the Japan Machine Tool Industry Association showed that Japan's machine tool orders in November rose 15.9% year-on-year and 10.8% month-on-month to 112.028 billion yen, of which domestic orders rose 22.0% year-on-year and foreign orders rose 13.0% year-on-year. Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association (Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association) preliminary report released on December 12 showed that Japan's November machine tool orders rose 15.9% year-on-year and 10.8% month-on-month to 112.028 billion yen. Among them, domestic machine tool orders rose 22.0% year-on-year and 19.0% month-on-month to 37.731 billion yen; foreign orders rose 13.0% year-on-year and 7.1% month-on-month to 74.297 billion yen. Please refer to the table below for Japanese machine tool orders: ----------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 ------------------------------Year-over-year change------------- ------------ Total 15.9% 26.0% 20.1% 15.2% 34.8% 53.5% 34.0% 32.3% Domestic 22.0% 25.0% 30.9% 31.3% 22.2% 42.5% 12.7% 50.1% Foreign 13.0% 26.5 % 15.6% 7.2% 41.4% 59.4% 45.8% 25.6% -----------------------------MoM change----- --------------------- Total 10.8% -8.5% 11.7% -12.7% -11.8% 19.0% 1.0% -5.8% Domestic 19.0% -10.7% -5.5 % 5.1% -14.2% 29.1% -3.1% 4.0% Overseas 7.1% -7.5% 22.3% -20.9% -10.7% 14.7% 2.9% -9.6% ---------------- ------------- Actual value (billion yen)------------ Total 112.028 101.110 110.507 98.929 113.363 128.581 108.061 106.943 Domestic --------------------------------- -------------------------------------- Note: The above data are not seasonally adjusted.