Japan retail sales for April: +0.4% m/m (expected +1.1%)

Japan retail sales data for April (and the securities flows data too)

Retail sales +0.4% m/m

• expected +1.1%, prior was -1.9%

Retail sales +5.0% y/y

• expected +5.5%, prior was -9.7%

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• Japan Buying Foreign Bonds, Y 911.8B
• Japan Buying Foreign Stocks, Y 265.1B
• Foreign Buying Japan Bonds, Y 39.2B
• Foreign Buying Japan Stocks, Y 561.2B