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Machinery Orders (May)

Core machinery orders have managed to avoid any negative fallout from March’s disaster and continued on their gentle upward trend in May. But they remain a long way below their pre-financial crisis level and are unlikely to benefit significantly from much reconstruction-related investment.

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