Japan’s surprise rate hike fuelled a banking and tech stocks rally while hope of more stimulus from Beijing boosted Hong Kong shares

BOJ decides to raise the overnight call rate to 0.25%. It also unveiled plans to halve monthly bond buying to 3 trillion yen ($19.6bn) by early 2026

Faster-than-expected second-quarter growth in the US lifted the mood on most trading floors though there was also a post-typhoon Taiwan drag

Planning agency says it will use $20.7 billion from special bonds being issued this year to subsidize replacement home appliances, cars, bicycles and other items

Poverty charity Oxfam warned of “obscene levels” of inequality ahead of a G20 summit in Brazil this week

Share indexes across the region retreated as confidence in Big Tech’s fortunes waned off the back of some tame earnings posts

The Bank of Japan is still unsure whether to hike its interest rate next week, but keen to unveil its plan to halve bond buying, sources say

Demand concerns for the world’s No2 economy cast a shadow across the region’s trading floors, trumping a U-turn in technology shares

The amount raised so far this year from China is up 1,588% on the same period in 2023, the LSEG data showed; Japan's deal value has increased by 486%.

Investors across the region took Biden’s election withdrawal in their stride but the impact of last week’s Microsoft-related outage was still being felt

Foreign investor flows into Asian bonds also dropped 34% in the first six months of the year, data showed

Chinese banks were seen to have issued 2.25 trillion yuan ($309.38 billion) in new yuan loans last month, compared to 950 billion yuan in May