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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Japan's Nikkei stock average edged up by mid-session on Wednesday as exporters like Canon Inc. bounced back from losses, but gains were limited by data confirming weak economic growth in the three months to September.
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Japan's economy grows just 0.1% in the third quarter, hit by faltering exports and a slowdown in corporate investment.
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Japan's key interest rate is kept on hold at 0.5% for a fourth consecutive month amid a slip in consumer prices.
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Japanâs economy contracted in the April-June quarter, the government said in a revision of its preliminary estimate that it had expanded. The latest data suggest that Japanâs economy may be suffering a slowdown in its pace of growth, making it harder for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates anytime soon. The government said the nationâs gross domestic product fell 1.2 percent on an annual basis in the April-June period, the first contraction in three quarters. Its preliminary estimate was that the economy had grown 0.5 percent in the spring quarter.
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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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Japanese stocks rebounded from earlier losses to end moderately higher on Thursday, helped by the weakening of the yen.
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Japan's economy will likely expand 1.6 percent in the fiscal year starting in April, slower than the expected pace for the current fiscal year because of dwindling capital expenditures and housing investment, the government said Monday.
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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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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 economy barely grew during the quarter ending Sept. 30 and in the April-June period it actually shrank instead of squeezing out slight growth, according to revised government data released Wednesday.
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Japan's Nikkei ended down half a percent  on Friday as caution set in ahead of U.S. jobs data and banks  and drug firms succumbed to profit-taking.
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The Japanese economy was in recession for most of 2004 as official figures show three successive quarters of negative growth, upsetting forecasts as slower exports and consumption hit output.
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Japan's economy has grown more slowly than predicted, figures show, raising question marks over its recovery.
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Japanese companies were less upbeat in December than they were three months ago, amid recent data indicating that the world's second-largest economy may be losing steam, a key government survey showed Wednesday.
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Asian economies have weathered the US subprime mortgage crisis well and will experience only a mild slowdown next year, a senior International Monetary Fund official said Thursday.