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Japan’s economy grows for a second straight quarter

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( ) -q-21- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “GDP, grew 3.6-percent.”

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-to-September quarter as consumer spending held up.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product, or GDP, measures the value of a nation’s products and services. The annual rate shows how much the economy would have grown or contracted, if the quarterly rate continued for a year.

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VERBATIM: Government data shows that the world’s fourth-largest economy grew 0.2% in the fiscal second quarter, marking the second straight quarter of expansion. Domestic demand grew at an annualized rate of 2.5%. Private consumption, which makes up more than half of Japan’s GDP, grew 3.6%.

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