The move represents the latest salvo in a mortgage price war which has seen home loan rates tumble to record lows since the government's Funding for Lending scheme was launched a year ago.
This increasing volatility was demonstrated all too clearly in the final few months of 2011, when the prices of fundamental commodities such as copper, iron, zinc, coffee and cocoa tumbled from record, or near record, highs because people were concerned about the implications of the eurozone crisis.
Despite Nintendo's rough-and-tumble record following the fifth-generation console wars, they have been responsible for some of the most innovative and downright weird approaches to console gaming.
Deflation worsened in the same month, with consumer prices tumbling a record 2.2 per cent.
Japan also said that exports tumbled a record 35% in December.
The government posted data showing that factory output tumbled a record 9.6% in December, compared with a drop of 8.5% in November.
Japan said Thursday that December exports tumbled a record 35.0%, the steepest decline since the government began tracking such data in 1980, leading the country to log its third successive quarterly of trade deficit.
During three rounds of Fed bond-buying, the latest beginning in September 2012, interest rates have tumbled to record lows before rising in recent months as investors feared the Fed was preparing to reduce the program.
The navigator – who plotted Wild Oats XI towards two of her race records in 2005 and 2012 – was sad to see her record tumble, but was consoled by the fact it went to another crew she had charted for in Loyal.
Watch: 'Shape of my Heart' Hewn with heartfelt emotion and laced with bittersweet melancholy, Fink's morbid anxieties and unrequited yearnings tumble from the record.
These tumbling temperature records are often accompanied in media reports by the caveat that we are experiencing a particularly strong El Niño - perhaps the largest in history.
