Reuters: US Dollar Report: TABLE-BOJ tankan:Japan corp mood unchanged

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TABLE-BOJ tankan:Japan corp mood unchanged Apr 2nd 2012, 00:24 Tweet Share this Email Print Sun Apr 1, 2012 8:24pm EDT TOKYO, April 2 (Reuters) - Big Japanese manufacturers' sentiment was unchanged in the first quarter from the quarter before, a closely watched Bank of Japan survey showed, in a sign they remain worried about the yen's strength and global economic slowdown. The headline index for big manufacturers' sentiment was minus 4 in March, unchanged from December and lower than the median market forecast for minus 1, the closely watched quarterly tankan survey showed on Monday. Details were as follows: March 2012 June 2012 Dec 2011 ************************************************************** Manufacturers Large -4 (-1) -3 (+2) -4 Medium -7 -8 -3 Small -10 (-8) -15 (-7) -8 Non-manufacturers Large +5 (+5) +5 (+6) +4 Medium -1 -5 -4 Small -11 (-13) -16 (-14) -14 ************************************************************** 2012/13 March survey CAPITAL SPENDING All firms -1.3 Large Firms 0.0 (+1.0) Manufacturers +3.6 Non-manufacturers -2.0 Medium Firms +3.4 Manufacturers +4.0 Non-manufacturers +3.0 Small Firms -12.9 (-18.8) Manufacturers -18.8 Non-manufacturers -9.1 Sentiment indexes measure the percentage of firms reporting a favourable business environment minus those reporting unfavourable conditions. The survey period: Feb. 23 to March 30 The number of the companies that were surveyed: 10,894 of which 2,344 were large firms. To view the BOJ's table on the survey, click on Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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