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Japan Retail Sales & Industrial Production (Dec. 2021)

The small fall in both retail sales and industrial production in December suggests that the post-Delta rebound was losing steam before local Omicron cases started to surge. And while output is still set to have rebounded strongly last quarter, we think Omicron disruption will cause the economy to only tread water this quarter.

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