Fears over a second credit crunch were raised today as five central banks including the Bank of England announced emergency plans to pump billions of dollars into the financial system... more
Commentary: Demand for safe-haven assets has for weeks now been telling us pretty clearly where the clever money thinks western economies are heading, and it ain't up... more
Japan's beleaguered stock market bounces back as two days of desperate panic selling in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami tempt western bargain hunters back into the fray... more
Japan's stock market is gripped by panic selling as the stricken nation's central bank resorts to emergency measures for the second successive day, pumping eight trillion yen (£61 billion) into money markets... more
Japan’s central bank cuts its key interest rate to virtually zero, and says it may set up a $60 billion fund to buy government bonds and other assets in a move to inject life into a faltering economy... more
Japan’s central bank today pledged 10 trillion yen(£697.9 million) of emergency funding to its ailing economy in an attempt to control its surging currency and falling prices... more
Japanese companies’ views on their prospects have improved for the second quarter running, the central bank’s highly-regarded tankan survey showed ... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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