Sunday, November 16, 2008

Japan enters first recession since 2001

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's economy, the world's second largest, unexpectedly shrank in the third quarter, confirming it entered the first recession since 2001 as companies cut spending.

Gross domestic product fell an annualized 0.4 percent in the three months ended Sept. 30, the Cabinet Office said today in Tokyo. Economists predicted the economy would grow 0.1 percent after contracting a revised 3.7 percent in the previous period.

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