Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1104 business Asian Markets en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:06:19 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1104 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/world_markets ap/20100209/world_markets AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:56:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/world_markets"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0" /></a>AP - European and U.S. markets rose Tuesday, with Greece leading the charge, on hopes that EU officials will provide the eurozone's most heavily indebted economies with some form of support.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/world_markets"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices ap/20100209/oil_prices AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:24:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.dbada15e386f4955a81746eaef96aefd.oil_prices_nybz178.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=3GG76GSZTIUWUPbjMVx5Dw--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2010 file photo, Kevin Richards of Norton & Haines Hauling puts away a fuel hose after topping off about 30,000 gallons of home heating oil into the underground storage tanks at Gleason's oil depot in Framingham, Mass. Heating oil prices got a boost Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, as the second powerful storm in four days threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Heating oil prices got a boost Tuesday as the second powerful storm in four days threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on the East Coast.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.dbada15e386f4955a81746eaef96aefd.oil_prices_nybz178.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=3GG76GSZTIUWUPbjMVx5Dw--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2010 file photo, Kevin Richards of Norton & Haines Hauling puts away a fuel hose after topping off about 30,000 gallons of home heating oil into the underground storage tanks at Gleason's oil depot in Framingham, Mass. Heating oil prices got a boost Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, as the second powerful storm in four days threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/bs_nm/us_toyota nm/20100208/us_toyota Reuters science Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:51:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/bs_nm/us_toyota"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r2774952024.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=Pl_d9ZHCJDmWXLHwluM0Og--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Toyota Motor Corp's newest Prius hybrid car is displayed at its showroom in Tokyo February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp was preparing a global recall of its new Prius model on Monday, further damaging its reputation for quality and reliability on the heels of two other massive recalls.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/bs_nm/us_toyota"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r2774952024.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=Pl_d9ZHCJDmWXLHwluM0Og--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Toyota Motor Corp's newest Prius hybrid car is displayed at its showroom in Tokyo February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/bs_nm/us_japan_economy nm/20100208/us_japan_economy Reuters business Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:33:57 GMT Reuters - Japanese bank lending logged its biggest annual fall in more than four years in January as companies faced with overcapacity and a murky economic outlook steered clear of borrowing for capital investment purposes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/bs_afp/chinaeconomy afp/20100207/chinaeconomy AFP business Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:19:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/bs_afp/chinaeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265532021204-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=56X8GtgnSLg5BrmXThisCQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Farmers sell strawberries from carts on a Beijing street on February 2, 2010. A top state-run think tank has forecast that China will return to double digital growth this year, with a 10 percent rise in gross domestic product, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A top state-run think tank has forecast that China will return to double digital growth this year, with a 10 percent rise in gross domestic product, state media reported Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/bs_afp/chinaeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265532021204-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=56X8GtgnSLg5BrmXThisCQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Farmers sell strawberries from carts on a Beijing street on February 2, 2010. A top state-run think tank has forecast that China will return to double digital growth this year, with a 10 percent rise in gross domestic product, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/bs_nm/us_markets_global nm/20100205/us_markets_global Reuters business Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:21:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/bs_nm/us_markets_global"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100205/i/r2056176398.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=6N3ZrGryfCWXRwUQZDkRXg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A trader watches a monitor displaying stocks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Global shares hit three-month lows and the euro fell to an eight-month low against the dollar on Friday as euro zone sovereign debt problems and nerves ahead of U.S. jobs data led investors to dump riskier assets.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/bs_nm/us_markets_global"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100205/i/r2056176398.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=6N3ZrGryfCWXRwUQZDkRXg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="A trader watches a monitor displaying stocks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/bs_afp/asiafinancestocks afp/20100204/asiafinancestocks AFP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:58:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/bs_afp/asiafinancestocks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265279429776-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=NzzpWb_RwElY45Ad5kJ5og--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Company share prices are shown on an index board at the Sydney Stock Exchange. The crisis surrounding Toyota's recall of millions of cars around the world weighed on Japanese stocks as profit-taking also sent regional markets lower.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The crisis surrounding Toyota's recall of millions of cars around the world weighed on Japanese stocks on Thursday as profit-taking also sent regional markets lower.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/bs_afp/asiafinancestocks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265279429776-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=NzzpWb_RwElY45Ad5kJ5og--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Company share prices are shown on an index board at the Sydney Stock Exchange. The crisis surrounding Toyota's recall of millions of cars around the world weighed on Japanese stocks as profit-taking also sent regional markets lower.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/bs_nm/us_markets_oil nm/20100203/us_markets_oil Reuters business Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:06:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/bs_nm/us_markets_oil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100203/i/r1239710105.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=06KKxLP8KBF5kis1YO7vIg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="An employee fills a car with petrol at a gas station in Jammu July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Oil slipped toward $77 a barrel on Wednesday after U.S. data showed crude inventories in the world's largest energy consumer rose more than expected while refinery utilization rates fell again.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/bs_nm/us_markets_oil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100203/i/r1239710105.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=06KKxLP8KBF5kis1YO7vIg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="An employee fills a car with petrol at a gas station in Jammu July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/bs_afp/chinaeconomyoecdbankingloans afp/20100202/chinaeconomyoecdbankingloans AFP business Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/bs_afp/chinaeconomyoecdbankingloans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265104560927-1-0.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=JaYVsnlmmMfmQxPSxz4LRQ--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="A branch of the Bank of China in Shanghai. Surging bank lending could threaten the stability of financial institutions in fast-growing China, the OECD said in a report that urged more market reforms to help reduce such risks.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Surging bank lending could threaten the stability of financial institutions in fast-growing China, the OECD said Tuesday in a report that urged more market reforms to help reduce such risks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/bs_afp/chinaeconomyoecdbankingloans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265104560927-1-0.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=JaYVsnlmmMfmQxPSxz4LRQ--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="photo" title="A branch of the Bank of China in Shanghai. Surging bank lending could threaten the stability of financial institutions in fast-growing China, the OECD said in a report that urged more market reforms to help reduce such risks.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/wl_afp/nkoreaeconomymoney afp/20100202/nkoreaeconomymoney AFP world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:45:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/wl_afp/nkoreaeconomymoney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265100193507-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=eGvBJlRUFbn1FvF.Bf6.Rg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="North Korean women are seen gathering at a stall to buy food items in Pyongyang, in 2003. Angry North Koreans have attacked security agents as hunger mounts following a crackdown on market trade, according to reports by groups in Seoul with contacts in the communist state.(AFP/File/Chai Hin Goh)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Angry North Koreans have attacked security agents as hunger mounts following a crackdown on market trade, according to reports Tuesday by groups in Seoul with contacts in the communist state.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/wl_afp/nkoreaeconomymoney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265100193507-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=eGvBJlRUFbn1FvF.Bf6.Rg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="North Korean women are seen gathering at a stall to buy food items in Pyongyang, in 2003. Angry North Koreans have attacked security agents as hunger mounts following a crackdown on market trade, according to reports by groups in Seoul with contacts in the communist state.(AFP/File/Chai Hin Goh)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/bs_nm/us_china_economy nm/20100201/us_china_economy Reuters business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:39 GMT Reuters - China has ordered a further clampdown on excessive bank lending to ensure credit has not illegally entered the stock or property markets as two surveys on Monday showed the mounting challenges faced by policymakers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/bs_nm/us_china_economy_interview nm/20100201/us_china_economy_interview Reuters business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:34:52 GMT Reuters - China might increase interest rates once consumer inflation exceeds the one-year benchmark deposit rate of 2.25 percent, a prominent government adviser said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/bs_nm/us_china_economy_lending nm/20100201/us_china_economy_lending Reuters business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:21:35 GMT Reuters - Chinese banks issued net new yuan loans of nearly 1.6 trillion yuan ($234.4 billion) in January, the Economic Information Daily reported on Monday, pointing to a much slower pace of lending in the last 10 days of the month. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_economy ap/20100129/as_japan_economy AP business Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:13:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.78e36ceebcca4c5fb61b76c45bfb7c89.japan_economy_tok102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=GoSzWKN6xEojM3X5S7K.cA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="In this Dec. 1, 2009 photo, sale signs are displayed in front of a men's suits shop in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese prices and wages continued to fall in December as deflation deepened its grip on the world's second biggest economy. Core consumer prices fell 1.3 percent from a year earlier, the government said Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Japanese read: 'Shutting up our store fully. All suits & coats are on sale,' left, and 'Two choices of any suits & coats are sold at 18,000 yen (US$200).' (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Japan's economy took baby steps forward in December as unemployment eased and factory output rose.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.78e36ceebcca4c5fb61b76c45bfb7c89.japan_economy_tok102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=GoSzWKN6xEojM3X5S7K.cA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Dec. 1, 2009 photo, sale signs are displayed in front of a men's suits shop in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese prices and wages continued to fall in December as deflation deepened its grip on the world's second biggest economy. Core consumer prices fell 1.3 percent from a year earlier, the government said Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Japanese read: 'Shutting up our store fully. All suits & coats are on sale,' left, and 'Two choices of any suits & coats are sold at 18,000 yen (US$200).' (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100125/bs_afp/davosfinanceeconomy afp/20100125/davosfinanceeconomy AFP business Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:19:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100125/bs_afp/davosfinanceeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100125/capt.photo_1264388986066-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=SSe9ny5roPj_cXWCuU9wXQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Chinese labourers work at a construction site in Hefei, eastern China. The state of China's property and stock markets has heightened inflation fears which has already forced the Beijing government to cut back on bank lending to deter a consumer splurge on cars and property.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Global leaders and bankers will be looking for firm signs at the Davos forum this week of China's determination to control the hot money pouring into its economy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100125/bs_afp/davosfinanceeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100125/capt.photo_1264388986066-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=SSe9ny5roPj_cXWCuU9wXQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chinese labourers work at a construction site in Hefei, eastern China. The state of China's property and stock markets has heightened inflation fears which has already forced the Beijing government to cut back on bank lending to deter a consumer splurge on cars and property.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100125/bs_nm/us_china_economy_inflation nm/20100125/us_china_economy_inflation Reuters business Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:11:03 GMT Reuters - China's gross domestic product growth is likely to grow about 9.5 percent in 2010, largely driven by strong domestic consumption and corporate investment, a government researcher said in remarks published on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100124/bs_nm/us_japan_economy_tankan nm/20100124/us_japan_economy_tankan Reuters business Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:33:17 GMT Reuters - Japanese manufacturers' confidence has recovered to its highest level since the global financial crisis hit, but remains weak overall due to concerns about deflation and sluggish domestic demand, a Reuters poll showed. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_economy ap/20100121/as_china_economy AP business Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:56:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100121/capt.fc7cbd3cd9b54c3390490b5b7ae59450.china_economy_xhg101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_oMBFo2jxUqrKra9hYKzIA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Chinese shoppers walk past a God of Prosperity decorations surrounded by tiger figurines at a mall in Beijing Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. China reported Thursday its economy grew by 8.7 percent in 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)" border="0" /></a>AP - China declared it is over the global crisis and signaled a shift in focus to controlling inflation, sparking concern it could hamper growth and the country's contribution to a worldwide rebound.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100121/capt.fc7cbd3cd9b54c3390490b5b7ae59450.china_economy_xhg101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_oMBFo2jxUqrKra9hYKzIA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chinese shoppers walk past a God of Prosperity decorations surrounded by tiger figurines at a mall in Beijing Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. China reported Thursday its economy grew by 8.7 percent in 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100121/bs_afp/chinaeconomyjapan afp/20100121/chinaeconomyjapan AFP business Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:49:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100121/bs_afp/chinaeconomyjapan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100121/capt.photo_1264072426346-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=YK.xJTzqOsI9Kd5MTAH9pg--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Graphic on China's yearly and quarterly GDP growth. China appears to be on the brink of overtaking beleaguered Japan as the world's second-biggest economy after another blistering performance in 2009, analysts have said.(AFP/Graphic)" border="0" /></a>AFP - China appears to be on the brink of overtaking beleaguered Japan as the world's second-biggest economy after another blistering performance in 2009, analysts said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100121/bs_afp/chinaeconomyjapan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100121/capt.photo_1264072426346-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=YK.xJTzqOsI9Kd5MTAH9pg--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="photo" title="Graphic on China's yearly and quarterly GDP growth. China appears to be on the brink of overtaking beleaguered Japan as the world's second-biggest economy after another blistering performance in 2009, analysts have said.(AFP/Graphic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100121/bs_afp/commoditiesenergyoilpriceleadwrap afp/20100121/commoditiesenergyoilpriceleadwrap AFP business Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:14:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100121/bs_afp/commoditiesenergyoilpriceleadwrap"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100121/capt.photo_1264098377997-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=rpXDt1Pwy31S8nov8s5Ssw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="World oil prices fell Thursday as traders reacted to rising US gasoline stockpiles and weak demand in the world's biggest energy consuming nation.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Oil prices rose slightly on Thursday before the release of widely-monitored data on US energy reserves and following sharp losses caused by concern about the Chinese economy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asiabusiness/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100121/bs_afp/commoditiesenergyoilpriceleadwrap"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100121/capt.photo_1264098377997-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=rpXDt1Pwy31S8nov8s5Ssw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="World oil prices fell Thursday as traders reacted to rising US gasoline stockpiles and weak demand in the world's biggest energy consuming nation.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)