How 'bout that Nikkei? 8th largest rise yesterday! Abe's corporate tax cuts promises (like he hasn't said that before) a big driver.

Coming up from Japan today ... due at 2350GMT

  • July Machinery Orders m/m, expected is 3.0%, prior -7.9%
  • July Machinery Orders y/y, expected is 10.3%, prior 16.6%

Yesterday afternoon from Japan we got August machine tool orders. Ryan had the data and a look at the poor trend in that data (check it out, here)

And today it's a similar, but different set of data . Yesterday's Machine Tool Orders data is from the Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association. Today's Machinery Tools data is from the Japan Cabinet Office.

Also at 2350GMT

  • PPI m/m for August: expected -0.4%, prior -0.2%
  • And PPI y/y: expected -3.3%, prior -3.0%

And, the regular International Transactions in Securities data from Japan's Ministry of Finance

  • Japan Buying Foreign Bonds
  • Japan Buying Foreign Stocks
  • Foreign Buying Japan Bonds
  • Foreign Buying Japan Stocks