Asia’s investors struggled to keep up with Wall St amid Covid fears, the Evergrande debt crisis and China’s regulatory crackdown draining the enthusiasm on trading floors

Positive US inflation data failed to lift the region’s markets as Covid’s impact and news of Beijing’s latest series of crackdowns - this time on Macau’s casinos - saw shares slide

Impending political change in Japan has spurred the Nikkei to new peaks but worries over an overheating US economy, the tapering of Washington’s stimulus package and Beijing’s regulatory crackdowns dampened the mood elsewhere

Beijing has now warned tech giants, including Alibaba and Tencent, to stop blocking rivals' links from their own sites, as the party’s regulatory offensive continues

Factory gate inflation in the US soared to over 8% in August while China’s continuing regulatory crackdown saw market heavyweight Alibaba plunge more than 4% after officials ordered sweeping changes to payment app Alipay

Blackstone's offer in June had valued the property group – which holds prime real estate in cities like Beijing – at HK$26 billion but worries over ‘time frames’ have scuppered the deal

The tech giant will no longer be allowed to force developers to use its tightly-controlled sales tool – however the judge dismissed a claim it was an ‘illegal monopoly’

Tech giants Tencent, NetEase, Alibaba and JD.com regained some of their losses following China’s latest crackdown while analysts hailed the feel-good factor after the world’s economic super powers started talking again

Fears about the impact of new coronavirus outbreaks on the economic recovery becalmed most trading floors around the region while the prospect of political change in Japan spurred more gains

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 broke through 30,000 for the first time in five months as bounceback optimism spread across trading floors despite the continued threat of spreading Covid cases

Asian markets were mostly up ahead of US job figure releases with traders’ optimism for the recovery outweighing fears over the spreading pandemic

Beijing’s dressing down of ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing spoiled the mood across trading floors despite more reassurances from the Fed over its fiscal support for the US economy