Japan Jibun preliminary, or flash, PMIs.
Manufacturing 48.9
- prior 87.7
Services 53.1
- prior 53.0
Composite 51.6
- prior 51.1
The data focus from Japan today were the CPI numbers:
All three of the main measures are well above the Bank of Japan 2%.
Updating USD/JPY, after its big slide its had a bounce. This is hourly chart ... its been heavy all week:
