TOKYO—Tokyo stocks opened flat on Tuesday as a set of fresh Japanese economic indicators showed a patchy recovery for the world's third-largest economy. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 7.24 points, or 0.05 percent, to 13,668.37 at the start, after four days of losses that have seen the index surrender 7.6 percent. Ten minutes before the opening bell, the government said Japan's industrial output fell by a sharper-than expected 3.3 percent on-month in June, while household spending was also weak. In one bright spot, Japan's jobless rate fell to 3.9 percent in June to the lowest point in more than four years, official data showed. The Tokyo market was likely to move in a...
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