The continued improvement in the main balances of Japan’s Economy Watchers Survey (EWS) in February is further evidence of a strong and increasingly broad-based recovery. We would pay less attention to the third successive year-on-year decline in bank lending: this is probably no more a sign of renewed economic weakness than the surge a year earlier was then a sign of strength.
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