I posted the headline results here
More from Reuters
- Japanese manufacturers’ optimism improved to the highest level in three years,
- Weak yen boosted earnings for exporters
Makers of cars and electronics, however, were less upbeat due to worries about slowing growth in emerging markets, highlighting the risk overseas economies pose to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reflationary policies.
“Sales are doing much better than we initially anticipated,” one chemicals maker said in the August 2-9 poll of 400 big and medium-sized firms, of which 276 responded.
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- The service sector gauge is at its highest level since April 2007 , attributed to a housing boom and increased corporate spending on IT services.
- The BOJ’s tankan issued on July 1 showed manufacturers’ sentiment turned positive in April-June for the first time in nearly two years
- The BOJ will release its next Tankan survey on October 1.
