Japan's GDP shrank 0.2% qoq in Q1 of 2025, compared with market expectations of a 0.1% fall and after a 0.6% growth in Q4, flash data showed. This was the first quarterly contraction in a year ...

On an annualized basis, GDP grew 2.8%, exceeding the Reuters estimate of 1%. Full-year GDP growth slowed ... against the backdrop of Japan's central bank raising rates to 0.5% — their highest ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy grew at a ... stimulus programme and raising interest rates further in coming months. The nation's gross domestic product expanded by an annualised 2.9% in the ...

fueling expectations that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates soon and lending further strength to the yen. Real gross domestic product expanded 1.2% on an annualized basis in the quarter ...

[TOKYO] The growth of Japan’s GDP may sound like good news for the country ... spending by weighing threats of higher tariffs,” said Ataru Okumura, senior rates strategist at SMBC Nikko Securities.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy ... to raising rates either," said Uichiro Nozaki, an economist at Nomura Securities. The upward revision still leaves third-quarter GDP growth much slower than ...

TOKYO :Japan ... rate hikes. Gross domestic product expanded an annualised 2.2 per cent in the three months to December, the Cabinet Office's revised data showed, slower than the 2.8 per cent ...

Japan’s GDP price index also grew less than expected in the third quarter, indicating that inflation growth slowed after ... headroom to raise interest rates further, especially in the face ...