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Japanese firms more confident despite woe

01.10.09
Japanese companies’ views on their prospects have improved for the second quarter running, the central bank’s highly-regarded tankan survey showed ... more

Praise from Morgan fires up Vedanta

01.10.09
Vedanta Resources claimed the crown among top stocks today as City heavyweight Morgan Stanley predicted the miner’s shares could double in price — even if metal prices remain stuck at their current levels ... 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

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

Banks need bonds as a buffer, says Tucker

28.05.09
Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker today said banks should hold assets such as government bonds to act as a buffer after the financial crisis exposed a "shocking" lack of liquidity at UK lenders... more

Upbeat Bank of Japan claims 'worst is over' for Japanese economy

22.05.09
The Bank of Japan said the worst may be over for the world's second-biggest economy, despite figures showing it shrank at a record pace in the first three months of the year... more

US job cuts and Far East woes cloud G20 hopes

01.04.09
Hopes that the European economy has stabilised were overshadowed by a tidal wave of dismal news from Asia and the US as leaders of the G20 nations gathered in London... more

Bank of Japan brings in third economy boost

18.03.09
The Bank of Japan is to embark on its third stimulus plan with a bout of so-called quantitative easing in a bid to shore up an economy which is contracting at a double-digit percentage rate... 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

Bank of Japan acts to free credit logjam

19.02.09
Economics: The Bank of Japan said it will buy one trillion yen in corporate bonds from financial institutions, and extend lending programmes to try to get credit moving... more

Japanese minister quits but says: I wasn't drunk

17.02.09
Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa said he would resign after accusations that he was drunk at a G7 meeting... more

Brown in final gamble: to print money

07.01.09
The Government may resort to printing extra money if interest rates keep falling... more

Bank of Japan joins 'zero interest' race

19.12.08
Economics: The Bank of Japan joined the big economies' race to zero interest rates, cutting the official short-term interest rate to just 0.1% from 0.3%... more

Deflation fears in US after 0% interest rate prediction

20.11.08
Economy: A senior Wall Street economist predicts US interest rates will be 0% by early next year... more

Fed to step up battle against recession with new rate cut

29.10.08
Economy: The US Federal Reserve is set to slash interest rates as central banks around the world accelerate the fight against recession... more

Japan failures gathering pace

21.10.08
Economics: The Bank of Japan says business failures in the country are rising at their fastest in eight years as banks remain reluctant to lend to small and mid-sized firms... more

It's dollars unlimited to boost liquidity

13.10.08
Credit crunch: Unlimited amounts of dollars will be available to the commercial bank lending market as the US Federal Reserve continues to stand behind attempts to kick-start liquidity in the money markets... more

Central banks' action starts a thaw in the money markets

13.10.08
The frozen money markets showed tentative signs of thawing as central banks and governments around the world battled the financial crisis... more

Central banks pump billions into markets to beat freeze

07.10.08
Banking: Central banks pump more than £6.3 billion into money markets, seeking to ease a credit freeze threatening to tip the world economy into a recession... more

Commentary: Major economies must now act together to support their banks

07.10.08
Australia has cut its rates and the Sydney stock market responded positively, closing up nearly two per cent. Pressure is growing for our own Monetary Policy Committee to follow suit on Thursday... more

Time to act together on rates

07.10.08
A cut by the MPC acting on its own, though welcomed, would quickly be forgotten in the current market climate... more

South Korea lends a hand as liquidity woes spread to Asia

06.10.08
Credit crunch: The money-markets crisis spilled into Asia today as the South Korean government said it would intervene to boost liquidity for its banks... more

Confidence on slide in Japan

01.10.08
Economics: Japan's Tankan index of confidence among its largest manufacturers has turned sharply downwards... more

Fed pumps in £100bn to avoid another collapse

18.09.08
The Federal Reserve wades into the international money markets, pumping in a further $180 billion (£101 billion) of dollar-denominated lending ... more

Japan PM quits and sparks fears of a sell-off

01.09.08
Yasuo Fukuda stands down as Prime Minister of Japan, sparking fears of a sell-off of shares when Tokyo opens... more

Japanese firms stay optimistic

01.07.08
Japan's official survey of business confidence, the Tankan, shows that the country's largest manufacturers are in better heart than expected... more

New depths of gloom in Japan

01.04.08
Japan's largest manufacturers at their gloomiest in four years ... more

Japan output hit by US woes

31.03.08
The US downturn is biting harder in Japan, with manufacturers cutting production... more

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