11.   Instead,investors, upset by a pessimistic economic assessment accompanying the rate reduction, sent stocks lower.

12.   Instead, investors, upset by a pessimistic economic assessment accompanying the rate reduction, either sold stocks lower or bought cautiously.

13.   Instead, investors, upset by a pessimistic economic assessment accompanying the rate reduction, sold stocks lower.

14.   Instead, investors, upset by a pessimistic economic assessment accompanying the rate reduction, sold stocks lower across the market Thursday.

15.   Just last week, the government issued its gloomiest economic assessment in almost two years.

16.   Japan issues gloomiest economic assessment in decades.

17.   Japan on Friday slightly upgraded its general economic assessment, saying improvements were led by growing activity in the corporate sector.

18.   Last month, the Bank of Japan downgraded its economic assessment for the seventh consecutive month.

19.   That budget may be increased or trimmed as economic assessments of the cost of repairing war damage are completed, Van den Broek said.

20.   The Bank of Japan on Monday downgraded its economic assessment for the fifth straight month, following a similar report last week from the Cabinet Office.