Japan's Industrial Output Slides in January
Feb 29, 8:52 AM EST |
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| Housing construction remains at a low level while showing a pick up. |
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| Corporate profits improvement appears to be pausing and business investment is increasing moderately. The employment improvement appears to be pausing while some severe aspects remain. Private consumption is almost flat. Exports are increasing moderately and industrial production is growing at a slower pace. |
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BOJ Gives Uncertain Global Outlook
Feb 22, 10:35 AM EST |
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| The elevated prices of materials such as crude oil have been reducing profits, especially at small firms. |
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| The world economy continues to expand as a whole, but the uncertainty regarding its future path is increasing due to the aforementioned volatility in global financial markets. In the United States, an economic slowdown is becoming more evident. Housing investment is down substantially, with the fall in housing sales and the rise in the already-elevated stock of unsold homes continuing unabated. Home prices continue to fall, and there is no indication that the bottom has yet been reached. |
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BOJ Says Signs of U.S. Slowdown Continue to Grow
Feb 19, 2:37 PM EST |
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| Public investment has been sluggish and housing investment has dropped substantially. |
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| Japan''''s economy is expanding moderately as a trend, although the pace of growth seems to be slowing mainly due to the drop in housing investment. Exports and production have continued to increase. Business fixed investment has also continued to trend upward against the background of generally high corporate profits. Private consumption has been firm in a situation where household income has continued rising moderately. |
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Housing Drags Economy
Feb 15, 10:59 AM EST |
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| Japan's economy is expanding moderately as a trend, although the pace of growth seems to be slowing mainly due to the drop in housing investment. |
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| Exports and production have continued to increase. Business fixed investment has also continued to trend upward against the background of generally high corporate profits. Private consumption has been firm in a situation where household income has continued rising moderately. Meanwhile, public investment has been sluggish and housing investment has dropped substantially. |
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Bank of Japan Holds Rates
Feb 15, 10:36 AM EST |
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| The Bank of Japan will encourage the uncollateralized overnight call rate to remain at around 0.5%. |
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| The Bank of Japan announced on its website today that it had unanimously voted to keep its key interest rate unchanged at 0.5%. In the previous two votes Atsushi Mizuno had disagreed with other members. |
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Economic Growth Accelerates
Feb 14, 1:49 PM EST |
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| Exports in the fourth quarter were unchanged at 2.9% in real terms, but fell marginally to 1.7% from 2% a quarter ago in nominal terms. |
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| The Cabinet Office reported today in the preliminary figures for fourth quarter GDP growth that the country’s gross domestic product increased to 0.9% from 0.8% in the third quarter. In real terms, the domestic market contributed 0.5%, while exports contributed 0.4% and in nominal terms the domestic market contributed 0.2% and net exports added 0.5%. |
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Japan's Foreign Reserves Hit 996B
Feb 07, 8:41 AM EST |
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| Japan's reserve assets totaled $996,044 million as of January 31, 2008, up $22,679 million from the end of December. |
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| Stocks rose in Japan after the country’s foreign exchange reserve assets climbed for the seventh straight month to a record level on the rising trade surplus. The Bank of Japan holds less than 3% of its assets in gold. |
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