TOKYO， Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo shares closed almost flat Monday morning， with market sentiment mixed on the strong yen and expectations that the Bank of Japan will purchase exchange-traded funds.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average gained 0.79 points， or 0.00 percent， from Friday to 16，920.71.
The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was down 2.30 points， or 0.17 percent， to 1，320.92.
Gainers were led by information and communication， and rubber product issues while decliners were led by pulp and paper， and iron and steel issues.
WASHINGTON [url=http://www.comprarmax2018es.com/...jer-negras-rosa.html]Comprar Nike Air Vapormax 2018 Mujer Negras Rosa[/url] , Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.1 percent in the second quarter this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.2 percent, the Commerce Department said Friday.
The moderate growth in the second quarter followed a sluggish pace of 0.8 percent in the first quarter, underscoring the weak performance of the world's largest economy in the first half of 2016.
"The acceleration in real GDP (gross domestic product) in the second quarter primarily reflected an acceleration in PCE (personal consumption expenditure), a smaller decrease in nonresidential fixed investment, an upturn in exports, and a smaller decrease in federal government spending," the Commerce Department said.
Consumer spending remained the U.S. economy's driving force, expanding at an annual rate of 4.4 percent in the second quarter, up from an earlier estimate of 4.2 percent. That was the fastest growth rate since late 2014 and contributed 2.94 percentage points to GDP growth in the second quarter.
However, overall fixed investment, weighted down by contractions in equipment, structures and residential investment, went down 2.5 percent in the second quarter and subtracted 0.42 percentage point from the GDP growth.
Inventories fell by a revised 12.4 billion U.S. dollars in the second quarter, the first decline since 2011. That subtracted 1.26 percentage points from GDP growth in the quarter, the largest drag in more than two years.
Overall spending by federal, state and local governments fell by 1.5 percent in the second quarter, compared with a previous estimate of a 0.9 percent decline.
The PCE price index, a Federal Reserve preferred inflation indicator, increased 2 percent in the second quarter, compared to 0.3 percent growth in the first quarter.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, the core PCE price index increased 1.8 percent, while the index grew 2.1 percent in the first quarter.
While Federal Reserve officials generally agreed that near-term risks to the U.S. economic outlook had diminished, the central bank kept the federal funds rate unchanged last month.
Some Fed officials preferred to wait for more evidence that U.S. inflation would rise to the central bank's objective of 2 percent on a sustained basis, while other officials anticipated that economic conditions would soon warrant another rate increase, according to the minutes of the Fed's July 26-27 meeting released this month.
Analysts said it's possible for the Fed to hike interest rates as soon as September. But about 71 percent of 62 economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal this month believed that the Fed will wait until December to raise rates.
SOCHI, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's five-day wait for a gold medal ended on Thursday.
Li Jianrou claimed the country's first Sochi gold from the women's 500 meters short track and two hours later, Zhang Hong beat off a Dutch challenge in the women's 1,500m speed skating for China's first-ever gold in the sport.
China, which collected five golds four years ago in Vancouver, rose to eighth in the medal standings with two golds and one silver.
The 27-year-old Li got lucky as all other three finalists stumbled in front of her. She started from the most outside lane, only to be left behind soon, before pace-setter Park Seung-Hi of South Korea was caught in a clash between British Elise Christie and Italian Arianna Fontana at the first curve.
Li, the 2012 world champion over 1,500m, won the title unopposed with a time of 45.263 seconds, a far cry from the Olympic record of 42.985 held by her injured teammate Wang Meng.
"I always believe in myself," said Li. "I skated just like I do in daily training."
"There were too many surprises," added Chinese head coach Li Yan. "But that's sports. That's short track. What we can do is just to try our best."
Zhang Hong exploded to stun a strong field that included three-time Olympic champion Ireen Wust of the Netherlands, starting in the seventh from 18 pairs and winning in one minute 14.02 seconds, 0.67 seconds ahead of Wust.
Wust, who won the 3,000m on four days ago, took the silver and her teammate Margot Boer had the bronze.
"I am extremely happy now and it's hard to accept the reality that I have won the 1,000m," Zhang said. "We have been waiting for this gold for 22 years. I cannot believe I have won it."
Elsewhere, Joss Christensen led a US trio to a clean sweep of all three medals in the men's freestyle skiing slopestyle event.
Christensen scored 95.80 and 93.80 points in two runs for the gold, Gus Kenworthy took the silver and Nicholas Goepper won the bronze.
French biathlete Martin Fourcade, the defending champion, added the Olympic 20km individual gold to his pursuit title. Germany's Erik Lesser took silver and Russian Evgeniy Garanichev bronze.
The women's 10km classic style was won by Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland. Charlotte Kalla of Sweden and Therese Johaug of Norway finished second and third respectively.
Germany swept four out of four Olympic luge events, clocking 2:45.649 to win the team relay gold in Sanki Sliding Center.
The day's other surprise came from Russian figure skating star Yvegeny
Plushenko, who pulled out of the Games,
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