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IMF director said soaring prices and plummeting currencies have left “several countries at high risk of debt distress”
Equities across the region tracked their US peers overnight bouncing back after a long retreat buoyed by economic support pledges from Beijing
$44-billion takeover bid hits rocky water. But a lawyer for Musk said Twitter's court filing was a "misdirection" and that: "It is Twitter's executives that are under federal investigation."
Traders were on the lookout for signs of imminent Japanese intervention to prop up the struggling currency
Relentless Covid lockdowns have been blamed for denting investors’ appetite for Chinese assets with HK IPO issues falling to 9-year lows
Investors weren’t in the mood for risk-taking ahead of the latest US inflation figures and with it the prospect of more central bank tightening
Toshiba shares shot up on Thursday after reports of a possible takeover by a group of firms led by Japan Industrial Partners, a domestic private equity group
Japan says it is watching the yen’s slide “with a high sense of urgency” and is poised to “take appropriate steps on excess moves”
Byetdance hopes the move will motivate employees amid slowing growth and uncertainty over a plan to go public, sources said.
Asian equities wallowed at two-year lows, held down an unrelenting dollar rally, wobbles in the UK bond market and China's Covid crisis
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