{"id":139608,"date":"2026-06-01T02:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139608\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:45:26","slug":"japans-firms-cut-spending-over-iran-stress-despite-record-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139608\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s firms cut spending over Iran stress despite record profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s biggest companies reduced capital spending in the first quarter even as ordinary profits at manufacturers reached a record, as emerging uncertainty from escalating turbulence in the Middle East clouded prospects for future growth.<\/p>\n<p>Capital expenditure excluding software fell 3.5% from the previous quarter in the three months through March, the Finance Ministry reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The report also showed capital spending including software was flat compared with a year earlier, missing a median economist estimate of 4% growth by a wide margin. Sales edged 1.1% higher from a year earlier, while current profits rose 14.6%, soundly beating expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s biggest companies reduced capital spending in the first quarter even as ordinary profits at manufacturers reached a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[46000,4485,1004,34,14680,9284,49,213,9849],"class_list":["post-139608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-boj","tag-finance-ministry","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-japanese-economy","tag-manufacturing","tag-middle-east","tag-oil","tag-sanae-takaichi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116672562612550494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}