Japanese firms step up spending
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Japanese firms continue to spend on new equipment and production plants, a survey finds, underlining a continuing recovery in the world's second-largest economy.
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Strong consumer spending helped to drive Japan's economy at the end of 2006, figures show.
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Hoping to set the tone for this week&#39;s 50-nation Iraq reconstruction donors&#39; conference, Japan announced Tuesday three new projects worth a total of roughly US$14 million (euro 11.
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Japan's Nikkei average rose on Wednesday  after the Federal Reserve indicated the U.S. economy was  growing moderately, boosting exporters such as Matsushita  Electric Industrial Co. and Toyota Motor Corp.
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NEW YORK -- The nation's factories, plants, and utilities expanded faster in June, suggesting hardy consumer spending is boosting confidence among manufacturers even as prices for raw materials rise.
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The Japanese retailer eyes acquisitions to spur U.S. growth.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft 82.18 trillion yen (US$788.7 billion; euro594.62 billion) national budget for fiscal 2005, increasing overall spending to care for an aging population but trimming general and defense outlays.
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Japanese stocks rose Friday for a second session, supported by stronger-than-expected machinery orders and overnight gains on Wall Street.
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MUMBAI: Japanese stocks gained after a Government report showed industrial production rose for the first month in three, providing evidence that growth in the worlds second-largest economy will be sustained.
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Confidence among Japanâs big manufacturers deteriorated for the first time in seven quarters, although their capital spending plans were revised higher, the Bank of Japanâs âtankanâ survey for December showed on Wednesday.
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Services and businesses are boosting tech spending with network equipment purchases, researchers say.
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Japan's Nikkei average rose 1.62 percent  by midsession on Thursday as investors, cheered by a jump in  U.S. stocks, bought a broad range of shares including those  they had avoided recently due partly to doubts about U.S.  demand.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet has approved an 82.18 trillion yen (US$793 billion; euro587 billion) draft national budget for fiscal 2005, boosting overall spending to support its rapidly aging population and pay interest on the government&#39;s massive
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The Japanese information services industry clocked up sales of 13,703.9 billion yen in fiscal 2001, according to a report on selected service industries for 2001 released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
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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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Investment by Japanese firms hit a record in the first quarter of 2007, official data shows.
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Capital investment spending by Japanese firms fell in the second quarter, raising worries of a wider slowdown.