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Japan September Retail Sales +0.5% y/y (expected 2.3%)

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large retailer sales +2% vs. +5% prior m/m retail sales -2.3% vs. prior +0.8%

Disappointing results vs. the more encouraging industrial output data.

Still to come today:

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The Bank of Japan don’t have a set time for publishing their decision. Its usually in the 0230 to 0330 GMT time window:

2230 – 2330 US Eastern time

Bank of Japan Governor Ueda will follow with a press conference, and for that we do have a time, 0630 GMT

0230 US Eastern time

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.

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