New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
Several Instances of Weak Data Released Today
August 13, 2014
Japanese real GDP fell 6.8% annualized in the second quarter. The decline reversed the first-quarter gain but was not quite as much as analysts had feared. Because of a 20.5% dive in imports, net exports enhanced the growth rate by 4.4 percentage points, and involuntary inventory building accounted for another 3.9 percentage points of growth. […] More
