{"id":21960,"date":"2011-06-27T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=14814"},"modified":"2011-06-27T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:49:59","slug":"awaiting-japans-retail-sales-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/06\/27\/awaiting-japans-retail-sales-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting Japan\u2019s Retail Sales Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traders are anticipating the release of Japan\u2019s retail sales data later this evening. The island economy witnessed a sharp downturn in sales, year-on-year, back in April, dropping over 8%. Each month since, the nation has halved this decline, with only a 4% decline in May and expectations for a 2% drop in June.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-14814\"><\/span>If the early morning data can meet or exceed this forecast, traders may see a silver lining in Japan\u2019s currently bleak economic landscape. Given the sluggishness of the global manufacturing sector, however, many economists have expressed pessimism that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/06\/27\/no-news-from-greece-is-good-news-from-greece\/\">Japan <\/a>will meet the negative 2% target.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/06\/13\/weekly-technical-fx-preview\/Read%20more%20forex%20trading%20news%20on%20our%20forex%20blog.\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Traders are anticipating the release of Japan\u2019s retail sales data later this evening. The island economy witnessed a sharp downturn in sales, year-on-year, back in April, dropping over 8%. Each month since, the nation has halved this decline, with o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}