{"id":135810,"date":"2022-02-18T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/japans-economy-rebounds-on-solid-spending-omicron-clouds-outlook"},"modified":"2022-02-18T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T03:23:25","slug":"japans-economy-rebounds-on-solid-spending-omicron-clouds-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/japans-economy-rebounds-on-solid-spending-omicron-clouds-outlook","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s economy rebounds on solid spending, Omicron clouds outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-economy-rebounds-on-solid-spending-omicron-clouds-outlook2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) \u2014 Japan\u2019s economy rebounded in the final three months of 2021 as falling coronavirus cases helped prop up consumption, though rising raw material costs and a spike in new Omicron variant infections cloud the outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda also highlighted escalating tensions in Ukraine as a fresh risk to the central bank\u2019s forecast for a moderate economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s third-largest economy expanded an annualised 5.4% in October-December after contracting a revised 2.7% in the previous quarter, government data showed on Tuesday, falling short of a median market forecast for a 5.8% gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) \u2014 Japan\u2019s economy rebounded in the final three months of 2021 as falling coronavirus cases helped prop up consumption, though rising raw material costs and a spike in new Omicron variant infections cloud the outlook. Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda also highlighted escalating tensions in Ukraine as a fresh risk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}