Japan’s economy always seems to surprise – unfortunately, on the downside – and it has done so once again in the wake of the devastating quake and tsunami that hit the northeast coast on March 11. GDP ...

Japan's economy officially entered into a recession in the third quarter. Japan said that its economy contracted 0.8 percent (on an annualized basis) in the third quarter after declining 0.7 percent ...

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Australian shares declined on Monday, as falls in healthcare and telecommunications stocks were further compounded by weakness in Japanese stocks after data ...

Global economic confidence is rapidly unravelling as corporate profits shrink and successive data releases reveal a deteriorating outlook for growth, rivalling inflation as the principal risk for ...