30 November 2009 - 00H57  

Japan's factory output up 0.5 percent in October
Nissan Motor Company workers are seen on a production line at the company's Tochigi Plant in the town of Kaminokawacho, in Tochigi prefecture. Japan's factory output edged up by 0.5 percent in October from September, marking an eighth straight monthly gain, official data showed Monday.
Nissan Motor Company workers are seen on a production line at the company's Tochigi Plant in the town of Kaminokawacho, in Tochigi prefecture. Japan's factory output edged up by 0.5 percent in October from September, marking an eighth straight monthly gain, official data showed Monday.

AFP - Japan's factory output edged up by 0.5 percent in October from September, marking an eighth straight monthly gain, official data showed Monday.

The growth extended the longest unbroken expansion since a 12-month climb through March 1997 but came below an average market forecast for a rise of 2.5 percent.

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