"Abenomics" lifts Japan business mood, households' inflation expectations

By Leika Kihara and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business sentiment improved in the first three months of 2013 and households' inflation expectations hit a 4-1/2 year high, central bank surveys showed, suggesting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's determined push for monetary stimulus is thawing Japan's long-held perceptions of intractable deflation. The surveys - the first since Abe ...