Japanese consumer spending slips
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Japanese consumer spending dips and unemployment rises, so interest rates are now no longer expected to rise soon.
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Japanese stocks fell on the open Tuesday as the market took a breather from a seven-month high on Monday. The dollar was lower against the yen.
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Consumer spending in June fell by 0.9 percent, the steepest drop since August 2005.
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Consumer prices fall in Japan for the sixth month in a row in July but unemployment hits a nine-year low.
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Battered consumers, faced with weak income growth and rising inflation, trimmed their spending in August by the largest amount in nearly a year. The Commerce Department reported Friday that consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, dropped by 0.1 percent last month, the first decline since a 0.3 percent fall in September 2005, a month when business activity was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average slipped 0.07 percent by midday on Wednesday, pressured by falls in real estate firm Mitsui Fudosan Co. and others dependent on domestic demand after growth data came in weaker than expected.
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The nation's consumers, uninspired by this season's fashions and rattled by high gas prices and the weakening home market, shopped gingerly last month, extending the misery of retailers who have struggled with a spending slowdown since February.
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Japan's economy slowed sharply in the third quarter as capital expenditure and exports, the key driver of the recovery so far, faltered badly but there were more hopeful signs on consumer spending, drawing cheers from investors.
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Japan's economy grew at a far weaker pace in the third quarter than previously reported due to downward revisions in consumer spending and capital investment, the government said Friday, raising concerns about the recovery's strength.
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JapanÂs economy grew at a slower pace than previously reported in the most recent quarter, a sign that a long expansion may be losing steam.
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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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Capital investment levels by Japanese firms fell in the second quarter, raising worries of a wider slowdown.
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Tokyo, Sept. 11 (Jiji Press)--The number of subscribers to broadband services using digital subscriber lines in Japan at the end of June slipped 0.2 pct from three months earlier, marking the first-ever drop, a government report showed Monday.
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Japanese prices fall for a seventh straight month making a rate rise by the end of the year less likely.
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Business sentiment among big Japanese  manufacturers has sunk to a two-year low, a Bank of Japan  survey showed on Friday, reinforcing expectations that any rise  in interest rates will be delayed to late next year.
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Businesses reined in spending on major purchases last month, a sign that corporate America is pulling back as the economy slows down.
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Consumer spending slowed sharply in May as rising gasoline prices left Americans with less to spend on other items, the government reported Friday.