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Japan has back into recession, leaving financial analysts to over the implications for the global economy. Japan's economy unexpectedly for the second consecutive quarter. Two successive negative quarters officially a country in recession. The slide in the last quarter has economists by surprise. Figures that Japan's economy would by 2.1 per cent in the last quarter. Instead, gross domestic product (GDP) by 1.6 per cent between July and September. Many economists the fall to April's increase in sales tax from five to eight per cent. Many Japanese consumers have their purse strings and are simply not spending.

World leaders are that Japan's slide back into recession could ominous for the global economy. British leader David Cameron said the world on the brink of a second economic disaster. He reporters he "red warning lights" for the global economy because of international "instability and uncertainty" and a slowing of growth in emerging markets, especially Brazil and China. Mr Cameron said the problems "plain to see". He : "The Eurozone is on the brink of a possible third recession, with high unemployment, falling growth and the real risk of falling prices. Emerging markets, which the driver of growth in the early stages of the recovery, are now down."

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