Japan’s government doubles the offer of state-funded credit to troubled Japan Airlines to 200bn yen (.2bn; £1.3bn).

By making use of financial software for Forex trading it is now popular for foreign exchange currency traders to place trades from the comfort of their own home using their home laptop or desktop computers. Ever since the late nineties, getting real time quotes has been possible for retail investors and traders, which helped to level the playing field between the professionals and the retail speculators.