In the third quarter, the confidence of Japanese small and medium -sized enterprises continued to be sluggish

Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, September 13 (Reporter Liu Chunyan) A survey jointly released by the Japanese Cabinet Mansion and the Ministry of Finance on the 13th shows that in the third quarter of this year, the confidence of Japanese small and medium -sized enterprises in Japan continued to be sluggish, and the confidence of large enterprises was weak.

This survey is targeted at an enterprise with a capital of more than 10 million yen (about $ 1, about 142 yen). And important indicators to judge the economic situation.

The survey shows that in the third quarter, the confidence index of the medium -sized enterprise confidence between the capital of 100 million and 1 billion yen fell from negative 2.1 to 2.2; the small enterprise confidence index between 10 million and 100 million yen was 14.8 Fall to negative 15.9.

The confidence of the manufacturing company's confidence has been pulled back, and the large enterprise confidence index with a capital of 1 billion yen increased from the negative 0.9 of the previous quarter to 0.4. Among them, the confidence index of large manufacturing enterprises has risen sharply from negative 9.9 to 1.7, while the confidence index of large non -manufacturing enterprises decreases from 3.4 to 0.2.

The survey also shows that in the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of next year, the confidence of large and medium -sized enterprises in Japan is expected to continue to rise weakly, but small business confidence will still maintain a downturn.

[Editor in charge: Zhang Yongsu]

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