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Japanese Tankan could have been a lot worse

The Bank of Japan’s Tankan survey of business conditions was not quite as bad as we had feared, but we may just have been a quarter early. The one consolation is that Japan is not alone – other major economies are doing just as badly, or a lot worse.

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