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Heading back into recession

The latest figures on Japan’s economy paint an even worse picture than we had anticipated. That the economy contracted in Q3 is now taken as a given. However, chances of a recovery in Q4 are diminishing and Japan looks like it may face two consecutive quarters of steep decline.

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