TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Business sentiment at big
Japanese manufacturers worsened in the three months to March for
a fifth straight quarter, the Bank of Japan's key quarterly
tankan survey found, as Western banking woes added to
uncertainty over already slowing global growth.
The headline index for big manufacturers' sentiment was plus
1 versus plus 7 in December, the survey showed on Monday. That
compared with economists' median estimate of plus 3 in a Reuters
poll of 14 economists.
(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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