Japan narrowly escapes recession
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New figures show Japan's economy is barely staying out of recession with annual growth of just 0.2% in the third quarter.
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TOKYO Sept. 10, 2004 - Japan revised its economic growth numbers for the April-June quarter downward Friday, but analysts shrugged off the report and said recovery was on solid footing for the world&#39;s second largest economy.
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Confidence in business conditions at major Japanese companies fell from three months ago dampening expectations of an interest rate increase and clouding the outlook for the worldâs No. 2 economy.
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Japan's Nikkei index loses almost 4% and London's FTSE 100 opens 1.5% down amid recession warnings
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Japan's Nikkei average rose on Wednesday  after the Federal Reserve indicated the U.S. economy was  growing moderately, boosting exporters such as Matsushita  Electric Industrial Co. and Toyota Motor Corp.
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Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei average jumped 1.6 percent by the close on Friday as a rally on Wall Street and lower oil prices ignited broad-based buying, with weak Japanese GDP data causing only a brief stutter at the start.
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Japan's Nikkei average ended up 0.25 percent on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2005, as core blue chips including Sony Corp. gained ground on optimism about the country's economy and stock market.
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Most of Asia's stock markets staged cautious recovery on Friday, with the exception of Tokyo, where a continued fall in the Nikkei 225 Average erased the last remnants of the index's 2007 gains.
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Japan's economic recovery is on track as structural reforms take root but soaring global oil prices pose a question mark, the central bank chief says.
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The Federal Reserveâs surprise rate cut stemmed a fall in the Asian markets Wednesday but heightened fears of recession. Stocks in Europe were down slightly.
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Japan's unemployment rate improved in August while a key economic survey released Friday showed growing corporate optimism in the latest signs of a gradual rebound in the world's second largest economy.
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Japan sees an unexpected drop in its current account surplus, but exports continue to drive growth, figures say.
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Japan's jobless rate improved in September as pressure on companies to cut costs eased, while other key data on consumer spending and prices were generally postive, giving further signs that the decade old problem of deflation may be easing, official data showed.
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Japanese stocks recouped early losses by  late afternoon on Thursday as banks clawed back into positive  territory a day after a key survey showing waning business  sentiment had sparked a sell-off in the sector.
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Economist said the rate increase hardly seems enough to interrupt the huge flow of cheap yen out of Japan that now helps prop up global markets.
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Japan&#39;s economy grew 0.3 percent in real terms in the April-June period from the previous quarter, the government said Friday, marking a surprise downward revision from the initially reported expansion of 0.4 percent.
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Softening a surprise, pushing stocks and yen lower; economists say there&#39;s little cause for alarm. TOKYO  - Japan revised downward second-quarter economic growth Friday to 0.3 percent from an initial