Japan giving mixed signals on economy
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Top Japanese finance officials gave conflicting economic assessments Friday, with the central bank chief predicting a slowdown in Japan while the economy minister said she saw no sign of one.
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Economic growth in Japan slows down as the country experiences a drop in domestic and corporate spending.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday that Japan's economy was continuing a recovery despite recent turmoil in financial markets over fears of a global recession.
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Japan has said that corporate investment slowed from its recent breakneck pace in the three months to September, raising fears of a downgrade in economic growth for the quarter.
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Japanese newspapers Thursday voiced concern about an indecisive Super Tuesday in the United States, saying Tokyo hoped for clarity on how to stave off a US recession and end the Iraq conflict.
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Japan&#39;s stock market was weighed down on Thursday morning by a combination of overnight drops in the US and European markets and a rise in the yen.
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Japan&#39;s central bank offered a bleaker assessment of the country&#39;s economy Friday for the first time in more than a year and a half, citing weaker industrial production and slowing export growth.
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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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Figures show a fall in Japan's trade surplus, casting a shadow over the country's export-led recovery.
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The Japanese government downgraded its view on the economy slightly on Tuesday, citing weaker exports and output, but it said a recovery was continuing due to steady domestic demand, in terms of both personal consumption and capital spending.  "The economy continues to recover, while some weak movements have been seen recently," the government said in its monthly economic report.
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Japan's industrial production falls in October while unemployment rises, providing more evidence of a slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
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The Bank of Japan is seen holding off  raising interest rates on Wednesday, hours after the U.S.  central bank slashed rates by a hefty half-percentage point to  try to shield the U.S. economy from a housing slump and market  turmoil.
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Confidence at Japan&#39;s largest companies fell in the last quarter from a recent peak, but executives nonetheless said they planned to sharply increase capital investment in the
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ESSEN, Germany  - The G7 industrial powers, under pressure to address a decline of the yen, warned investors on Saturday that they could get burned betting in one direction when Japan's economy was continuing to strengthen.
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Japan's industrial production falls and unemployment rises, providing more evidence of a slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
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With growth slowing in China, Europe and Japan, some worry that rapidly escalating prices will trigger a self-reinforcing spiral of falling demand.
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The Japanese economy is close to stagnation, according to revisions to official figures yesterday that cut the estimate of GDP growth to just 0.1 per cent.