Japan May machinery orders fall 0.6% month-on-month
That compared with a 1.5% drop estimated by economists in a Reuters poll.
On a year-on-year basis, core orders, a highly volatile data series regarded as a leading indicator of capital spending in the coming six to nine months, grew 4.4%, versus a forecast for a 3.4% rise, the data showed.
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