Japan&#39;s economy sends mixed signals
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Japan&#39;s jobless rate rose unexpectedly last month while industrial output rebounded, according to data released Friday that painted a mixed picture of the health of Asia&#39;s largest economy.
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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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Masatsugu Asakawa has one of the busiest jobs in Tokyo these days: monitoring the U.S. dollar's fluctuation against the Japanese yen.
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Japanese stocks were mixed Thursday as traders were jittery over the outlook for the government after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation a day earlier.
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Tokyo stocks were mixed early Thursday amid profit taking and buying on the back of the U.S. dollar's strength against the Japanese yen.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 share average in morning trade retreated further from last week&#39;s seven-year closing high, beleaguered by a sense that Japanese stocks may be overvalued compared with those of other large share markets.
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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's second largest economy.
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Japanese financial officials tried to play down worries Friday that a planned revision in calculating growth may show the economy shrank instead of grew slightly in the quarter ended Sept. 30.
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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 stocks are expected to move in a narrow range on Monday as investors take a wait-and-see attitude because of concern over the impact on the economy of the strong yen.
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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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Japan&#39;s unemployment rate fell to a six-year low in November and industrial production picked up, offering evidence that the nation&#39;s recovery is continuing, although at a significantly slower pace than earlier in the year.
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The Japanese government left its view unchanged that the domestic economy is recovering, but warned that a high yen could hurt export-led growth.
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TOKYO : Japanese industrial output rose only 0.3 percent in August, suggesting after a series of recent weak data that the recovery in the world&#39;s second-largest economy is slowing, economists said on Thursday.
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The threat of a U.S. recession has central bankers around the world nervous  -  except for Japan's. Perhaps they should be
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Japan&#39;s stock benchmarks fell for the first day in four, after the dollar slumped against the yen, raising concerns that the nation&#39;s export-led economic recovery may be hindered.
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Asian markets show signs of recovery  but share prices in Tokyo reverse gains in late trading.