| Wed, 16 May 2012 Shares steady after sell-off, Greece fears weigh
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares steadied on Thursday from the previous day's sell-off, but investors found no reason to bet on risk amid deepening turmoil in Greece and fears of contagion to other stressed euro zone economies. | MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific sh... | Toll share wipeout rises to $800m
| Toll Holdings may sell its struggling Footwork Express company. Photo: Craig Abraham | Toll Holdings shares continued to tumble today as analysts began downgrading the transport company following its profit warning, taking its loss of market value to $800 million in j... | Japan's economy grows 4.1 pct amid recovery
| TOKYO — Japan's economy grew at an annual rate of 4.1 percent from January to March amid a gradual recovery from last year's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. | The Cabinet Office said Thursday the preliminary data for the gross domestic product, the measure ... | Most Japan Stocks Fall as Greece Outweighs Economic Data
| May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese stocks fell, with the Topix Index sliding a seventh day, as concern Greece’s debt crisis is worsening outweighed better-than-expected economic growth in Japan, and U.S. housing and factory data that beat estimates. | Canon Inc. (775... | Japan Jan-March GDP up 1.0% on quarter
| Japan's economy grew by 1.0 percent in the January to March quarter compared with the previous three months, according to the latest official data, as the world's third-largest economy mounts a slow recovery. | The preliminary figure from the Cabinet Office was slight... | UPDATE 1-Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi freezes Iran transactions
| TOKYO May 17 (Reuters) - Japan's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ said on Thursday it has frozen transactions with Iranian banks after it was ordered to do so by the New York District Court in early May. | The step is a consequence of a U.S. court decision in 2007 which o... | Instant View: Japan economy rebounds in Jan-March
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy rebounded in January-March from a lull in the previous quarter, shaking off the pain of a strong yen and Europe's debt crisis on solid consumer spending and rebuilding from last year's earthquake. | KEY POINTS: | - Gross domestic prod... | Japan economy rebounds in first quarter on firm consumption
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy grew 1.0 percent in January-March from the previous quarter, powering ahead of other major industrial nations thanks to rebuilding of the tsunami-battered northeast, solid private spending and recovering exports. | The expansion, roug... | Japan's Furukawa: Japan economy continuing in uptrend
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Economics Minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Thursday that the economy continued its uptrend in January-March and that it was expected to see moderate growth in the second quarter. | Furukawa said in a statement that reconstruction demand an... | GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares steady after sell-off, Greece fears weigh
| * MSCI Asia ex-Japan inches up 0.1 pct, Nikkei opens down 0.1 pct | * Euro off four-month low | By Chikako Mogi | TOKYO, May 17 (Reuters) - Asian shares steadied on Thursday from the previous day's sell-off, but investors found no reason to bet on risk amid deepening ... | TABLE-Japanese investors bought foreign bonds last week
| May 17 (Reuters) - Japanese investors were net buyers of foreign bonds last week, while foreign investors were net sellers of both Japanese bonds and shares, according to finance ministry data released on Thursday. Japanese investors were net buyers of foreign bonds f... | Japan Q1 GDP +1.0 pct q/q
| TOKYO May 17(Reuters) - Japan's economy grew 1.0 percent in January-March from the previous quarter, government data showed on Thursday, recovering from a lull late last year due to solid consumer spending, post-quake rebuilding and improving exports. | The expansion ... | RPT-Japan Q1 GDP +1.0 pct q/q
| TOKYO May 17(Reuters) - Japan's economy grew 1.0 percent in January-March from the previous quarter, government data showed on Thursday, recovering from a lull late last year due to solid consumer spending, post-quake rebuilding and improving exports. | The expansion ... | |
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