David Fickling, Columnist

Toyota Hits a Wall

The Japanese automaker has an attractive dividend yield but 2017 financial forecasts look awful.
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Toyota just can't catch a break.

Annual sales volumes in China broke through the 1 million unit mark in December and rose 33 percent from a year earlier in the March quarter, the best performance since 2010. In Japan, the automaker has snapped an 18-month run of weak sales in the past two quarters, with volumes rising 9.9 percent from a year earlier in the three months to March 31.