Japanse industriële output stijgt onverwacht veel

Japan’s industrial production rose 1.7 percent in April from March, exceeding the highest estimate in a Bloomberg News survey and helping Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revival campaign.

The pace quickened from 0.9 percent the previous month, a Trade Ministry report showed in Tokyo today. National consumer prices fell for a sixth month in April, separate data showed. At the same time, a price gauge for the city of Tokyo rose in May for the first time in four years, a gain that may point to a shift in the next national reading, according to SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.