Japan’s Nikkei average slipped 0.6 percent on Wednesday, a day after its biggest one-day gain in history, with Toyota Motor Co (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and other exporters down after Wall Street fell on worries about the global economy.

Asian stocks fell about 4 percent, down for a fifth consecutive day, and government bond prices rose on Wednesday as fears of a looming global recession grew with no sign of a coordinated response or an end to the worsening financial meltdown.

Asian stocks fell while the yen rose to a two-year high against the euro on Friday on fears the $700 billion financial rescue bill still needing final U.S. government approval may not be enough to keep the global economy from falling into recession.   The flow of credit remained practically frozen in money markets, leading to a scramble for U.S.

Japan’s Nikkei slid 5.1 percent to a three-year low on Tuesday as investors dumped shares following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and turmoil in Wall Street, as other U.S. financial firms fought to survive. [ID:nN13574113] Japan’s top three lenders plunged, with No.

German car maker Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) sold a total of 43.5 billion yen ($406.9 million) of Samurai bonds in three tranches, lead manager Mitsubishi UFJ Securities said on Friday.

How many corneal endothelial transplant donors are required in a year? One of the first and most difficult questions facing a team of Japanese and Indian eye care specialists, who are preparing to supply massive quantities of corneal endothelial “spheres” from a human corneal endothelial stem cell

* MSCI Asia-ex Japan share index hits 17-month low * Oil tries to snap 3-day decline, trading at $113 * Japan’s economy shrinks by 0.6 percent in Q2 Asian stocks fell on Wednesday, with regional shares outside of Japan hitting a 17-month low, on the growing risk of a sharp global economic slowdown.

Japanese annual wholesale price inflation jumped to 7.1 percent in July, a 27-year high and well above expectations, adding to fears that high energy and commodity costs are squeezing firms and pushing the economy into recession.

By Charley James John McCain keeps talking about making the US “energy independent.” Yet Robert Bryce – an energy industry expert and author of the new book <i>Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of ‘Energy Independence’</i>, points out that it will be impossible for America to be energy independent with current technology.

It has been a curiosity for me that we have so few up in arms over the government’s shenanigans. Growing up in the 60s and 70s I spent a lot of time at demonstrations and rallies protesting the war in Vietnam and other things that were wrong with our Country back then. Then all the passion died away.