Reuters monthly poll tracks the Bank of Japan’s key tankan quarterly survey
- Japan manufacturers index -5 in February vs -6 in January
- non-manufacturers index +15 vs January +14
- Japan manufacturers May index seen at -5, non-manufacturers +15
One of the comments from the poll of firms:
- “Just as the domestic economy’s slump following the sales tax hike is becoming evident, the coronavirus spread has made China-bound exports totally unclear”
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Reuters poll of 502 large- and mid-sized companies, in which 245 firms replied
- indexes are calculated by subtracting the percentage of pessimistic respondents from optimistic ones