Macroeconomic indicators – stocks, bonds, debt levels, real estate, unemployment – show that China's downturn is following ...

Japan’s economy managed to grow in the fourth quarter of last year, averting a recession, according to revised government data released Monday that had previously shown a contraction. Real gross ...

But what does a Japanese recession mean for U.S. companies? Two decades ago, a receding Japanese economy would have spelled disaster for many American brands and consumers. However, much global ...

The Japanese economy expanded in the final three months of 2024 thanks to solid corporate spending and external demand, a ...

Japan’s economy avoided a technical recession, revised government data showed on Monday, even though the upward change in the fourth quarter was weaker than expected and highlighted concerns ...

It seemed like everything Japan’s central bank tried to do to help didn’t work: Interest rates were slashed to zero, and kept there for a very long time; still, the recession continued.

Fiscal and monetary policies like cutting taxes or lowering interest rates can coax an economy out of recession. Enough on our economy. Japan and the UK are technically in a recession. These ...

This is what we now recognize as a "balance-sheet recession," a term the Nomura economist Richard Koo coined in 1997 to describe Japan's economic sluggishness as society paid down debt from its ...