Bloomberg Japan’s population is declining, deflation has returned, and the nation’s economy is still stuck in cycle of weak, stop-start growth. And yet, there are a number of hidden and underutilized resources that Japan could tap to try and escape this economic malaise. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development notes that while demographics are against it, Japan still …

  Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc will close the bulk of sites at its marine-engine and ship-design unit and shift some production to emerging economies as the lower price of crude hurts demand for oil-industry exploration and service vessels. The offshore market is showing no sign of recovery, with the outlook bleaker as the backlog shrinks, Rolls, which is better known …

  Bloomberg Wage growth is on fire. The Atlanta Fed’s Wage Growth Tracker indicates that the median US worker saw pay rise by 3.9 percent year-over-year in October, the fastest rate of growth since November 2008. This number comes on the heels of October’s non-farm payrolls report, which showed average hourly earnings increasing at the fastest annual clip of this …