Leading corporate managers expect the nation's gross domestic product to post zero growth in fiscal 2002, the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) said Tuesday, quoting the results of a recent survey.
Some 142 top industrialists who also occupy various posts within the business lobby were surveyed in July and August.
This median forecast signifies an improvement from January, when the the industrialists forecast a shrinkage of 0.6 percent.
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