friend today. the markets are seeing declines. exporters are drawing driving it lower this morning. these are examples at the lunchtime break. australia that is the picture really across asia. there it is, the dow jones off 1.5%. that was the market reaction to the u.s. jobs on friday. that is where asia is taking its lead. thanks, john. our top story here, japan came out of recession the last quarter of 2014, but not nearly as strongly as originally thought. let s head over to tokyo to speak to james. what do the numbers tell us? thanks very much. the numbers show that japan did actually come out of recession in the fourth quarter of last year, but it was a revision down. the growth was much lower than the preliminary 2.2% growth we saw. that is mainly due to shaky business confidence. the business investment actually fell in the period. the preliminary data showed that business rose slightly. and cutting down on inventories. business investment has fallen. inventories
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