Japanese growth revised upwards
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Japan saw its economy grow at a faster pace than  expected in the three months to June, officials figures show.
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Tokyo stocks rose by mid-morning on  Monday with a broad range of issues getting a lift from a key  survey that boosted optimism on Japan's economic outlook, with  expectations rising that growth figures will be revised up.
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Japan&#39;s trade surplus rose by 8.8% in October from a year earlier, to 1.164 trillion yen ($11.32bn; Â£6.02bn). The rise was above market expectations, because of one-off exports of vessels, the Ministry of Finance said.
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Japanese stock indexes edged higher by midmorning Tuesday, building on a strong upward momentum in the previous session after corporate capital spending raised hopes that gross domestic product data will be revised up later in the week.
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Japanese industrial output rose for the first time in three months in November and the jobless rate fell to its lowest in nearly six years, providing some relief after a run of bleak data over the last several months.
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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, the world's second largest, grew more quickly than many experts forecast, state figures show.
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Strong export demand helped Japan to grow at a rate of 3.7% in the last quarter of 2007, figures show.
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Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei average rose for the first time in three sessions to close 0.62 percent higher on Wednesday after investors found positive signs in revised Japanese economic growth figures that were sluggish overall.
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TOKYO: Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei average rose 0.62 per cent by the close on Wednesday after revised figures on Japanese economic growth, while sluggish, came in better than some had feared and the yen edged down against the dollar.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose on expectations a government report today may provide further evidence of growth in the world&#39;s second-largest economy.
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A survey shows Japanese companies at their most optimistic in more than two years.
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The Asian Development Bank has revised up its economic growth forecast for Hong Kong this year to 7.5 per cent from the 6 per cent it projected in April, due to stronger than expected retail sales and the surge in tourist arrivals.
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Japan's current account surplus expanded 9.3 percent in September from a year earlier, for its 15th consecutive month of growth, the government said Wednesday.
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The Nikkei average rose 1.38 percent on   Monday to its highest level in more than three months on gains   in exporters such as Canon Inc. after U.S. stocks rose on a   report showing U.S. job growth was slightly stronger than   expected.
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Strong steel and car exports help Japan's trade surplus rise for the first time in three months.
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Japan has revised down second-quarter economic growth to 0.3 percent from an initial estimate of 0.4 percent, defying widespread expectations for an upward revision and sending the yen and stocks lower.