Machinery Orders September 2007 and the Economy Watchers Index in October

Well, this week really has been a pretty gloomy and forlorn one in Japan, since following hard on the heels of the zero reading on the leading indicators index we now have the September machinery orders data, and the latest edition of the Economy Watchers index (Japanese only at present). First the machinery orders.Machinery orders fell sharply in Japan in September, far more more than economists