日本貿易赤字劇增 因出口歐洲下降

日本貿易赤字劇增 因出口歐洲下降
Japan Swings to Trade Deficit as Exports Sink on Europe: Economy

By Andy Sharp and Keiko Ujikane - Aug 21, 2012

日本在7月貿易赤字比預期更高，這是由于歐洲主權債務危機及中國經濟增長放緩，油價上漲。
Japan reported a wider-than-expected trade deficit in July as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and a slowdown in China dragged down exports and higher oil prices boosted imports.

財政部今天在東京表示，7月貿易逆差爲5174億日元（65億美元），6月貿易有603億日元的盈余。早前彭博社調查了28位分析師，他們的預測是2700億日元的赤字。分析師預測出口同比下降2.9％，實際出口下降了8.1％。進口同比增長2.1％。
The shortfall was 517.4 billion yen ($6.5 billion), after a revised 60.3 billion yen surplus in June, the Finance Ministry said in Tokyo today. The median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of 28 analysts was for a 270 billion yen deficit. Exports fell 8.1 percent from a year earlier, compared with an estimated 2.9 percent drop. Imports rose 2.1 percent.

Strength in the yen and faltering global growth threaten to restrain exports in coming months, undermining Japan’s recovery from an earthquake, tsunami and economic contraction in 2011. Today’s report adds pressure for government spending or monetary easing to support the world’s third-biggest economy by bolstering domestic demand.

“Japan needs more monetary stimulus to sustain the recovery,” said Hiroaki Muto, a senior economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Co. in Tokyo. “Sentiment among manufacturers is deteriorating globally, triggered by Europe’s fiscal problems, and that’s adversely affecting Asian economies.”

The yen traded at 79.22 per dollar as of 11:20 a.m. in Tokyo, up more than 5 percent since mid-March. A stronger currency erodes export sales and profits. Today’s level compares with a post-World War II high of 75.35 in October.
Europe, China

財政部说在七月對欧联盟的出口货量同比下降了25％，這是2009年10月以来的最大跌幅，而对中国出口則下滑12％。7月份的贸易赤字是1979年以來的最大7月赤字。
Shipments to the European Union fell 25 percent in July from a year earlier, the biggest decline since October 2009, while those to China slipped 12 percent, the ministry said. The trade deficit was the biggest for any July in data going back to 1979, it said.

Today’s report adds to signs of weakness across Asia after growth in China’s overseas shipments collapsed in July and that nation’s economy grew at the slowest pace since 2009 in the second quarter. Japan’s gross domestic product advanced an annualized 1.4 percent in the three months through June, down from 5.5 percent in the first quarter.

Hiroshi Watanabe, a senior economist at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. in Tokyo, said Aug. 13 that a supplementary government budget for Japan is “already a done deal.” The central bank, meanwhile, is due to make its next policy decision Sept. 19.

“It’s unavoidable that Japan’s economic growth will lose steam this quarter,” said Kohei Okazaki, an economist at Nomura Securities Co. in Tokyo. “Global demand is looking stagnant as China’s economy is slowing while the advanced nations’ economies remain weak.”

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日本貿易赤字劇增 因出口歐洲下降
Japan Swings to Trade Deficit as Exports Sink on Europe: Economy

By Andy Sharp and Keiko Ujikane - Aug 21, 2012

日本在7月貿易赤字比預期更高，這是由于歐洲主權債務危機及中國經濟增長放緩，油價上漲。
Japan reported a wider-than-expected trade deficit in July as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and a slowdown in China dragged down exports and higher oil prices boosted imports.

財政部今天在東京表示，7月貿易逆差爲5174億日元（65億美元），6月貿易有603億日元的盈余。早前彭博社調查了28位分析師，他們的預測是2700億日元的赤字。分析師預測出口同比下降2.9％，實際出口下降了8.1％。進口同比增長2.1％。
The shortfall was 517.4 billion yen ($6.5 billion), after a revised 60.3 billion yen surplus in June, the Finance Ministry said in Tokyo today. The median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of 28 analysts was for a 270 billion yen deficit. Exports fell 8.1 percent from a year earlier, compared with an estimated 2.9 percent drop. Imports rose 2.1 percent.

Strength in the yen and faltering global growth threaten to restrain exports in coming months, undermining Japan’s recovery from an earthquake, tsunami and economic contraction in 2011. Today’s report adds pressure for government spending or monetary easing to support the world’s third-biggest economy by bolstering domestic demand.

“Japan needs more monetary stimulus to sustain the recovery,” said Hiroaki Muto, a senior economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Co. in Tokyo. “Sentiment among manufacturers is deteriorating globally, triggered by Europe’s fiscal problems, and that’s adversely affecting Asian economies.”

The yen traded at 79.22 per dollar as of 11:20 a.m. in Tokyo, up more than 5 percent since mid-March. A stronger currency erodes export sales and profits. Today’s level compares with a post-World War II high of 75.35 in October.
Europe, China

財政部说在七月對欧联盟的出口货量同比下降了25％，這是2009年10月以来的最大跌幅，而对中国出口則下滑12％。7月份的贸易赤字是1979年以來的最大7月赤字。
Shipments to the European Union fell 25 percent in July from a year earlier, the biggest decline since October 2009, while those to China slipped 12 percent, the ministry said. The trade deficit was the biggest for any July in data going back to 1979, it said.

Today’s report adds to signs of weakness across Asia after growth in China’s overseas shipments collapsed in July and that nation’s economy grew at the slowest pace since 2009 in the second quarter. Japan’s gross domestic product advanced an annualized 1.4 percent in the three months through June, down from 5.5 percent in the first quarter.

Hiroshi Watanabe, a senior economist at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. in Tokyo, said Aug. 13 that a supplementary government budget for Japan is “already a done deal.” The central bank, meanwhile, is due to make its next policy decision Sept. 19.

“It’s unavoidable that Japan’s economic growth will lose steam this quarter,” said Kohei Okazaki, an economist at Nomura Securities Co. in Tokyo. “Global demand is looking stagnant as China’s economy is slowing while the advanced nations’ economies remain weak.”

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