Four American Numbers Printed on Friday. All Four Missed, and Two Had the Sign Wrong.
Industrial production +0.3% expected, 0.0% printed.
Capacity utilisation 76.4% expected, 76.3% printed. Manufacturing output +0.3% expected, −0.3% printed. The leading index +0.1% expected, −0.1% printed. Both issuers settle their own numbers in one fetch, so this is a clean read on what a consensus is worth — and every yen-relevant release this week lands while Tokyo is shut.