Japan Q3 2007 GDP

Well Claus will doubtless be commenting in depth on the provisional data which have been released today, so I will limit myself here to simply sticking up a couple of charts. Basically the headline news is that the Japanese economy expanded an annualized 2.6% in the three months ended Sept. 30 (or a quarterly increase of 0.6%) following a revised 1.6% contraction in Q2, according to data released