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UK, Japan slip into technical recession

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... month in a row. Meanwhile, Japan's GDP contracted 0.4% in the last three months of 2023, according to the country's Cabinet Office. The economy contracted 2.9% between July and September. The International Monetary Fund predicts that Japan's economy ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... central bank last met have been mixed at best but overall continue to indicate lingering weakness in the economy. The Cabinet Office revised the country's economic growth rate to an annualised rate of 2.2% in the March 2019 quarter - up from 2.1% ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Japanese officials and investors must be wiping the sweats from their foreheads after the Cabinet Office released its latest National Accounts report and showed the country dodged a recession. Japanese GDP grew 0.3% in the December 2018 quarter following ...

Chief economist update: Japan's core strengthens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
When Japan's Cabinet Office revised it GDP growth estimate higher from the preliminary estimate of 0.5% to 0.7% in the June quarter, it also reported that capital expenditure provided the highest contribution to growth (0.5 percentage points) over ...

Chief economist update: Japan's sun shines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
Japan's economy grew 0.7% in the June quarter after contracting 0.2% in the March quarter. This is stronger than the Cabinet Office's preliminary estimate of 0.5% and is the fastest growth rate since the first quarter of last year (0.7%). This ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Instead of reversing, the yen continued to climb after Japan's Cabinet Office released the country's National Accounts showing that economic growth slowed to an annualised rate of 0.5% in the December quarter from 2.2% in the previous three-month period. ...

Sunny days not expected to last

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... November's 9.4% drop with a 3.5% gain in December. All good... if the latest monthly gains persist. But Japan's Cabinet Office thinks it won't, noting that the pick-up in orders was stalling. According to the Cabinet Office, "In the January-March period ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... would stall as what happened when America's 'cash for clunkers" programme was ended. Japan machinery orders Japan's Cabinet Office reports that core machinery orders -- private-sector machinery orders, excluding volatile ones for ships and those from ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... period versus a 1.5% increase in the year to August and expectations for a 1.0% expansion. Japan machinery orders Cabinet Office data shows that core machinery orders - ex ships and electric power utilities - decreased by 2.2% in the month of August. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... addition of US$18.0 billion and March's US$28.4 billion increase. Japan leading economic index A glimmer of hope? The Cabinet Office reported that Japan's leading economic index rose to a preliminary reading of 100.5 in April from 99.1 in the previous ...
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