Worries over another surge in US inflation dampened the mood across the region’s trading floors before the Christmas break
The aftershock from the BOJ’s surprise bond yield change was still being felt too with bargain-buyers moving in
Japan’s central bank surprised markets with its bond yield tweak which boosted the yen and cooled the red-hot US dollar’s charge
China's "closed loop" system, which had been relied on by many factories throughout the zero-Covid era, is also beginning to fall apart
Investors were still buoyed by the Bank of Japan’s shock move to loosen its leash on government bond yields but China’s Covid woes weighed too
Companies are likely to face stronger rules and scrutiny in 2023 in regard to environmental policies, to ensure they have 'climate-friendly' supply chains and investment policies
Japan's main share gauge closed at a more than two-month low while China’s indexes were under pressure again as its hospitals struggled to cope with a virus surge
India’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
US tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
Despite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.