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Japan upgrades Q2 GDP on stronger business spending

September 8, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 8, 2021

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kantaro Komiya

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s economy grew faster than the initially estimated in the April-June quarter, helped by solid capital expenditure, although a resurgence in COVID-19 is undermining service-sector consumption and clouding the outlook.

Revised gross domestic product (GDP) data by the Cabinet Office released on Wednesday showed the economy grew an annualised 1.9% in April-June, beating economists’ median forecast for a 1.6% gain and the initial estimate of a 1.3% expansion.

It followed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s announcement last Friday that he was stepping down, paving the way for the Sept. 29 ruling party leadership race, in which contenders will outline their plans to revive the world’s third-largest economy.

The upward revision was caused by better-than-initially-estimated business spending, as a brisk global economic recovery powered capital expenditure and factory output, which more than offset weak service-sector activity.

Still, Japan’s economic recovery remains fragile due to slow COVID-19 vaccinations and as pandemic restrictions hamper private-sector activity.

“Japan’s recovery is lagging behind other advanced economies. As such, the economy’s fully-fledged recovery needs to wait at least until early next year,” said Takeshi Minami, chief economist at Norinchukin Research Institute.

However, global chip shortages may put a drag on Japanese car production and shipments while signs of China’s economic slowdown emerge as sources of concern.

“The 1.9% April-June growth was not enough to push back the nearly 4% dip in January-March – less than a half of it,” said Yoshiki Shinke, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute. “On average, ‘stalling’ could be the main description of Japan’s economy during the first half of 2021.”

The second-quarter GDP growth figures translated into a quarter-on-quarter expansion of 0.5% in price-adjusted terms, better than an initial reading of a 0.3% growth and the median estimate for a 0.4% gain.

The capital expenditure component of GDP grew 2.3% in the second quarter from January-March, bigger than the median forecast for 2.0% growth and the preliminary 1.7% gain.

Private consumption, which accounts for more than half of Japan’s GDP, grew 0.9% in April-June from the previous three months, up slightly from a preliminary estimate of a 0.8% gain.

Domestic demand contributed 0.8 percentage points to revised growth figures, while net exports – or exports minus imports – shaved 0.3 percentage point off the second quarter growth.

Separate data on Wednesday showed the economy watchers survey, a gauge of service-sector sentiment fell to a seven-month low in August and at the fastest pace since February 2020.

The government downgraded the watchers’ overall assessment of the economy, saying “there are weaknesses in the recovery due to the effect of COVID-19.”

The data came a day after a weaker-than-expected July household spending reading, which suggested https://ift.tt/3hegbs5 the COVID-19 resurgence could have started hampering consumer activities even earlier in the current quarter.

(Reporting by Tetshshi Kajimoto and Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Sam Holmes)

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David Barret
David Barret

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