
While leaders from the G20 nations met in Brisbane, Australia this weekend to discuss growth and employment, Japan sank back into recession in the 3rd quarter, and British Prime Minister David Cameron warned of a European meltdown - a development that does not bode well for shipping.
The unexpected decline in Japan's gross national product (GNP) last month happened while the Japanese economy is also trying to shake off the effects of a VAT sales tax increase back in April, and the unexpected negative development could make Prime Minister Shinzo Abe postpone another increase of the sales tax, which was otherwise set to hit Japanese consumers next year.
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