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Latest: Asia Stock Market News

Wall Street Suffers Third Consecutive Quarterly Decline
Wall Street Suffers Third Consecutive Quarterly Decline

Wall Street has suffered the longest losing streak for the S&P and Nasdaq Composite since the Global Financial Crisis in 2007-09

Asian Markets Down After a Bad Month, With Joy Only in India
Asian Markets Down After a Bad Month, With Joy Only in India

Asian markets had a mixed day on Friday with most markets down, bar India. Overall, equity investors experienced their worst month since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic

Yoon Calls for Urgency After Korean Won’s Worst Month in Years
Yoon Calls for Urgency After Korean Won’s Worst Month in Years

South Korean President met with economic officials on Friday, when the won traded 0.6% higher, amid talk of modest intervention in the forex market. The won hit a 13-year low recently.

China’s Factory Activity Edges up But Service Sector Slows
Rupee Holds Against Dollar After India’s Lending Rate Hike
Japan Ready to Back Yen Again, Vows Finance Minister
Taiwan Central Bank Chief Rules Out Foreign Exchange Controls
Asia Markets Mixed on Dollar’s Surge, Sterling’s Slump
China’s Leapmotor Down 42% in Hong Kong Trading Debut – ST
China’s PBOC Calls on State Banks to Defend the Yuan

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors