{"id":66427,"date":"2026-02-16T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/japan-avoids-recession-with-weak-return-to-growth-business-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:00:55","slug":"japan-avoids-recession-with-weak-return-to-growth-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/japan-avoids-recession-with-weak-return-to-growth-business-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan avoids recession with weak return to growth \u2013 business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Japan misses growth forecasts for the final three months of 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shares fell in Tokyo as investors digest today\u2019s weaker-than-expected growth report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Nikkei<\/strong> <strong>225<\/strong> index dipped by 0.24%, while the broader <strong>Topix<\/strong> shed 0.8%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI figured the GDP figures would be treated as past figures, but seeing the Nikkei average struggling to gain, there may be some slight impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/16\/japan-growth-gdp-escapes-recession-takaichi-uk-stock-market-house-prices-interest-rates-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Japan misses growth forecasts for the final three months of 2025 Shares fell in Tokyo as investors digest today\u2019s weaker-than-expected growth report. The Nikkei 225 index dipped by 0.24%, while the broader Topix shed 0.8%. \u201cI figured the GDP figures would be treated as past &#8230; <a title=\"Japan avoids recession with weak return to growth \u2013 business live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/japan-avoids-recession-with-weak-return-to-growth-business-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Japan avoids recession with weak return to growth \u2013 business live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}