Canon Slashes Profit Forecast On Strong Yen
Faizan Hashmi Published July 26, 2016 | 01:51 PM
TOKYO, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th july,2016) - Canon chopped its annual profit forecast Tuesday as the camera and copier maker warned that a sharp rise in the Yen was taking a bite out of its bottom line. The company said it now expected weaker sales and a net profit of 180 billion yen ($1.7 billion) this year, down 10 percent from a previous forecast that had also been downgraded due to slowing growth in China and a pickup in Japan's currency. Canon's latest six months-to-June net profit fell 20 percent to 81.4 billion yen, while operating profit dropped nearly 37 percent from a year ago. Sales fell almost 10 percent to 1.66 trillion yen for the half-year period, it said.
Canon cut its full-year target owing to the "prolonged economic slowdown in developing countries, along with the negative impact of the revised foreign exchange rate assumptions on sales and gross profit". The yen -- traditionally seen as a safe-haven Currency -- rose sharply at the start of the year as fears over global growth hammered financial markets. The currency spiked again after Britain's vote last month to quit the European Union stoked a new wave of concern about the world economy. A strong yen makes Japanese exporters such as Canon less competitive overseas and shrinks the value of repatriated foreign profits.
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