More Japan data retail trade, industrial production via ForexLive

I had the major of these out on Twitter as they came out … the retail sales was quite slow to hit the wires … here's the rest:

• Retail Trade for July:  -0.5% m/m  (expected +0.3%, prior +0.5%)
• Retail Trade for July:  +0.5% y/y (expected -0.2%, prior -0.6%)
• Industrial Production for July:   +0.2% m/m (preliminary reading) (expected +1.0%, prior was -3.4%)
• Industrial Production for July: -0.9 % y/y (preliminary) (expected -0.1%, prior was +3.1%)

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