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Asia stocks plunge on renewed US fears

Japanese stocks fall to the lowest point since Black Monday, despite a further $20bn injection from its central bank

Asian stocks rebound on Australian rate cut

Investors across Asia take heart after Australia makes biggest reduction to interest rates in 16 years. Watch video

Asian stocks dive on emerging market fears

Trading screens showed a sea of red as the Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo fell to a more than four-year low

Nomura takes on Lehman's Indian IT businesses

Top Japanese broker boosts IT functions as it buys US bank's three Mumbai companies for an undisclosed sum

London plunges as banks pump in billions

Leading shares in London and Asia plummet, euro and pound fall and bank rescues in Europe continue, despite US bailout

Japan as the ghost of crisis future

An older, wiser Japan is looking at the carnage wreaked by the Wall Street party but nothing will be exactly the same again

Mitsubishi poised to extend Morgan alliance

The two banks are understood to be in talks to merge Japanese brokerage operations Listen to our podcast

Jobs saved as Toyota reveals UK plans

Japanese carmaker says that the new Avensis car is to be built at its factory near Derby, safeguarding nearly 5,000 jobs

New Nintendo release delayed until next year

New handheld DS console, designed to compete in the iPhone era, will not go on sale in Europe or US in time for Christmas

Game makers bank on the 'Shirley Temple effect'

In the Great Depression families watched Shirley Temple to cheer up - the hope is they will now play video games

Nintendo's new DSi is only for Japan for now

The Japanese games group wants more adults to buy its products but wlll miss critical Christmas period in US and Europe

Mood of pessimism grips Japan’s economy

The Bank of Japan’s September Tankan survey of business confidence fell into negative territory for the first time in five years

Mitsubishi takes 21% in Morgan Stanley

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ploughs $9bn to shore up the capital condition of Morgan Stanley, the blighted US firm

Global crisis sends Asia plunging

The rejection of the US banking bailout saw Tokyo and Sydney stock markets fall 5 per cent within minutes of opening

Nomura in rescue deal for 2,000 Lehman staff

Japanese bank paid a nominal $2 for parts of Lehman Brothers but said it was not buying any trading assets or liabilities

Mitsubishi UFJ snaps up one fifth of US bank

Japan's largest bank is about to pay at least $8.4bn for a large stake in Morgan Stanley, the American investment bank

Nomura wins battle for Lehman's Asia business

Japan giant brands $230m deal 'a steal' as its fight against Barclays for the US bank's European group nears its end

Asia markets rebound on US crisis fix hopes

US Treasury Secretary pledges to help clean up toxic banks but some fear today's rally in Asia is a 'dead cat bounce'

Japan releases £13bn to stem Asia market panic

Central bank ploughs in a total £41.7bn since Monday to calm investors, unconvinced at AIG and fearful of a new collapse