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Japan truckmaker Nissan Diesel veers into red

TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Nissan Diesel Motor Co , one of Japan's weakest truckmakers, said on Wednesday it veered back into the red for the six months to September as it took huge extraordinary losses on financial restructuring.

Its group net loss for April-September totalled 4.57 billion yen ($37.39 million), compared with a profit of 226 million yen in the year-earlier period.

Hit by a relentless slide in domestic demand, sales fell 1.3 percent to 184.14 billion yen.

Operating profit fell 8.0 percent to 3.87 billion yen, despite continued efforts to cut costs.

The net and operating results were slightly worse than figures reported by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business newspaper on Tuesday.

For the full year to March, Nissan Diesel expects a net loss of four billion yen, on sales of 370 billion yen. That would mark the first full-year net loss in three years.

Nissan Diesel is owned 22.5 percent each by Nissan Motor Co and Renault SA . ($1=122.21 yen)