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Japan cuts Q3 growth rate to 1.1% on slower investment
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Japan slashed its estimate of economic growth for the July-September quarter yesterday as investment by companies slowed more than first estimated.
The government said the world’s third-largest economy grew an annualized 1.1 percent last quarter, less than half the pace of the previous quarter. The initial estimate had put growth at 1.9 percent.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revival strategy for Japan centers on cheap credit, a weak yen and longer-term reforms to boost competitiveness, but corporate investment and personal incomes have yet to rebound. Meanwhile, exports have grown less than expected despite the weaker yen, partly due to slowing growth in many emerging economies.
Japan’s economy grew at a 4.3 percent pace in the first quarter of the year and 3.8 percent in April-June.
The revised data for the third quarter showed that the economy expanded 0.3 percent from the second quarter. The original estimate was 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter growth.
As the United States has moved toward a possible reduction of its monetary easing, Japan’s central bank has reaffirmed its commitment to pumping money into the economy to achieve an inflation target of 2 percent by 2015. Prices have only just begun to rise, but most of the increase has been attributed to rising costs for fuel and other imports.
The revised data yesterday showed slower foreign and domestic demand than originally thought.
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