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The Japanese yen hit a four-month high, while the Nikkei share index fell 2.5% after the Bank of Japan shocked markets on Tuesday by lifting the cap on bond yield controls.
Chinese are concerned over the uncertain economic outlook with Covid surging and Xi Jinping's "common prosperity" drive to cut income inequality, asset managers say
Stocks in China suffered their biggest fall in seven weeks, while Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney and most of Southeast Asia also declined. Indian markets, however, enjoyed a small rise.
The survey suggests that the Chinese economy "may be heading for recession in 2023," World Economics said
China's rocky exit from zero-Covid has forced banks and financiers to dust off plans devised to cope with the health crisis, injecting greater of unpredictability into markets
Investors were in downbeat mood at the end of the week as central banks around the world upped interest rates and warned of more to come
The new brand will be an addition to Yangwang, a premium brand set for launch in the first quarter of 2023 that it announced last month
The system has already been used by Russia following the imposition of sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine war
The US has added dozens of firms to its trade blacklist in a bid to curb China's military, human rights abuses, and block suppliers of the Russian military
US regulators say American auditors have got the green light to inspect the books of US-listed firms in China for the first time, after trial inspections in Hong Kong several months ago
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