It didn't take long for coverage of the predictable election outcome to shrink dramatically in the b...
It didn't take long for coverage of the predictable election outcome to shrink dramatically in the business page headlines. In this morning's nationals a number of stories concerned offshore economies. A number of the papers report that Japan's recession looks set to recommence. The FT writes that Japan's economy unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter and the government missed its target of 1.2 per cent growth in the fiscal year that ended in March. The decline is likely to fuel unease about the state of the global economic outlook, given that the US economy has weakened over th...
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