January 26 - Bloomberg (Keiko Ujikane): "Japan’s sovereign credit ranking outlook was lowered by Standard and Poor’s on concern Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s administration lacks a plan to rein within the world’s largest debt load. For example, one entity may follow the calendar 12 months, January to December, while one other may follow April to March because the accounting period. April 28 - Reuters (Idrees Ali): "The U.S. January 28 - Bloomberg (Jon Menon): "The British government is in search of to boost extra money by promoting its 71.5 billion-pound ($116 billion) stake in three crippled banks than Margaret Thatcher generated by disposing of state-owned companies during her entire 11 years in workplace. February three - Bloomberg: "China’s imports may have jumped in January by probably the most since at the least 1991, strengthening Asia’s financial restoration, in response to China International Capital Corp. January 26 - Bloomberg: "Chinese banks have begun limiting new loans, responding to a push by regulators to comprise credit after a surge in lending in the first half of this month. January 27 - Bloomberg: "China’s $300 billion sovereign wealth fund is contemplating new investments in resource-related firms after bets on commodities producers from the U.S. January 26 - Bloomberg (Caroline Hyde, Anchalee Worrachate and Sonja Cheung): "Greece offered eight billion euros ($11.3bn) of bonds at premium yields to ensure the country’s first debt difficulty since being downgraded was a hit.