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Gold adds sparkle to miners as dollar’s in the doldrums

09.11.09
The price of gold traded at a new record high of $1,107.12 an ounce on world markets today, in response to a weaker dollar ... more

Brad Pitt reveals dread-ful new beard

03.11.09
Brad Pitt has revealed his latest beard look on a visit to Japan.... more

Tatsuo Miyajima is keeper of the light fantastic

03.11.09
Tatsuo Miyajima is bringing his vision to the Royal Ballet, he tells Ben Luke.... more

US emergence from slump sparks a leap in Asia markets

30.10.09
The global economy showed further signs of health today as unemployment in Japan fell and stock markets in Asia surged on news that the US is out of recession ... more

Mandelson praises Japan’s new ‘internationalist’ leaders

06.10.09
Lord Mandelson today urged Japan to ease restrictions on foreign investment and expressed hope in the new government’s “internationalist stance” ... more

French Connection shuts Japan stores

05.10.09
Struggling fashion house French Connection has given up on its plan to be big in Japan — it is shutting all of its stores in the country ... more

Asia-Pacific shrugging off the slump despite Japan setbacks

30.09.09
Asia-Pacific is pulling strongly out of recession, a slew of economic data showed overnight ... more

Bookies must pay up, says racing chief

29.09.09
The British Horseracing Authority's chief executive Nic Coward has reiterated his frustration that bookmakers are not paying enough back to the sport... more

Deflation fear in Japan as prices fall

29.09.09
Japanese prices fell at their fastest rate in August, prompting fears that the country’s fragile economic recovery could be put at risk because of deflation ... more

Japan still passionate over its love hotels

21.09.09
Japan's AIM-listed provider of "love hotels", which rents out rooms by the hour, said it is flourishing despite the recession... more

Japan still passionate over its love hotels

21.09.09
You can’t put a price on love: while the Japanese economy saw its worst performance on record in the first quarter of this year, the country’s AIM-listed provider of “love hotels”, which rents out rooms by the hour, said it is flourishing despite the recession ... more

Japan gets more upbeat

17.09.09
Japan's central bank upgraded its outlook on the world’s second-largest economy and held interest rates at just 0.1%.... more

Jobless levels in Japan soar to post-war high as prices dive

28.08.09
Unemployment in Japan surged to a post-war high in July and prices fell at a record pace, threatening to undermine a nascent recovery for the world’s second-largest economy ... more

Japan exports tumble as worldwide spending dries up

26.08.09
Exports from Japan tumbled last month as an emerging rebound in global demand lost steam ... more

Japan coming out of its slump but Nikkei dives

17.08.09
Japan emerged from its deepest recession since the Second World War but it was not enough to stop a vicious slump in global stock markets and the price of oil ... more

City switches on to ITV as Grade talks up prospects for advertising

07.08.09
Could the worst be over for ITV? Plummeting advertising revenues pushed the broadcaster to a half-year loss of £105 million yesterday, but the City has today turned more bullish about its prospects ... more

Japan figures show recovery is still far off

26.06.09
Fresh worries about the recovery of the global economies burst out with fears that Japan's fightback was faltering with massive deflation... more

Bank of Japan sees an end to recession

16.06.09
The race is on to see which major industrial economy exits the recession first as Japan joined the UK in publishing potential "green shoot" data... more

Australia bucks global trends with first-quarter growth

03.06.09
The Australian economy unexpectedly grew in the first quarter of the year as it avoided the global recession... more

Japan 'love hotels' owner seeks £50m for growth

18.05.09
Japan Leisure Hotels, the euphemistically named firm that rents out rooms by the hour, wants to raise up to £50 million from investors to fund rapid expansion ... more

We're running out of options, but this one just might break the credit-markets logjam

05.03.09
What is it with macroeconomists? You think you understand how the economy works and then they come up with some subtle new monetary operation called "quantitative easing"... more

Japan's record trade gap as exports dive

25.02.09
Economics: The recession in Japan is deepening rapidly with exports to the US halving in January... more

Japan GDP shrinks by most in 35 years

16.02.09
Economics: Japan's economy, battling its worst downturn since the oil crisis of 1974, shrank last quarter by the most in 35 years... more

Japan sees its economy shrink 3.3 per cent

16.02.09
Japan has sunk into its worst recession since the oil crisis of the Seventies with its economy contracting by 3.3 per cent in the final quarter of last year... more

Japan in crisis as recession deepens

30.01.09
Economics: Japan has been battered by a tidal wave of dismal economic news as it faced up to its worst post-war recession... more

Shares find favour as markets get steadier

29.12.08
Investment: Investors are dipping their toes back into shares as global stock markets show signs of stabilising... more

Japanese exports take record plunge of 26.7%

22.12.08
Japan's exports dived by the most on record in November as demand for cars and electronics collapsed... more

Mizuho hit by bad loans and losses

31.10.08
Banking: Japan's second-largest bank Mizuho Financial Group says its full-year profit will slump 55% due to bad loans and losses on the markets... more

The money is coming home, but not to Britain

31.10.08
Analysis: This may sound like an anthem penned by Baddiel and Skinner, but the money's coming home. It tends to, in a crisis.... more

Chaos in US takes toll on exports from Japan

25.09.08
Japan's exports are beginning to feel the pinch from the chaos in the US as growth slowed in August, with a record drop in shipments to America... more

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