And, more data to come from Japan soon at 2350GMT
Overall household spending improves in January 2019
Up 2.0% y/y
- expected was doen 0.5%, so a nice beat
- previous was 0.1%
For the m/m, a gain of 0.7% (polling showed the central estimate was flat at 0.0%)
If you could keep your celebrations on the quiet side that'd be great. Yen is trying to sleep (and doing so quite well).