The continued recovery in machinery orders in December suggests that business investment is on the mend. On balance, we still think that GDP contracted for a second successive quarter in Q4 2012, which would do nothing to discourage talk of more aggressive easing from the Bank of Japan. However, the orders data and the December business conditions indices, also released today, add to other evidence that the economy should return to growth at the start of 2013.
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