Japan's key economic indicators revised downward for August
20/10/2008 16:24
The key indicator of the current state of Japan's economy for August was
revised downward to 100.6 from the preliminary 100.7 released earlier October,
according to a government report released today.
The revised composite index
of coincident economic indicators, which suffered a 2.9-point fall from the
previous month, were still above the gauge of 100 for the base year of 2005,
said the Cabinet Office said in the report.
And the report retained its basic
assessment of the economy as "worsening," unchanged from a preliminary
report.
Meanwhile, the composite index of leading economic indicators was
revised downward from a preliminary 89.3 to 89.0 while that of lagging
indicators was revised upward to 100.5 from a preliminary 100.2.
Xinhua
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