Japan finance minister signals readiness to ramp up stimulus to fight risks
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Thursday the government was ready to deploy fiscal stimulus steps flexibly if the economy needed fresh support to fend off risks from slumping global demand and the U.S.-China trade war.But he said Japan's economy remained on course for a moderate recovery thanks to robust domestic demand, signalling that no immediate, additional measures were necessary to ease the pain from a sales tax hike that kicked off in October."Given..