Corporate sector: high profits and positive investment stance Turning to Japan’s economy, in the corporate sector, profits increased to a record high owing in part to the decline in crude oil prices and to effects of the correction of the appreciation of the yen (Chart 6).
Central banks look at the critical role of a smoothly functioning payment system in maintaining financial stability and in promoting the orderly and balanced development of the economy. The Bank initiated a number of projects, regrettably those projects have been unduly stalled – for reasons that I would not wish to evoke here.