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Asian equities wallowed at two-year lows, held down an unrelenting dollar rally, wobbles in the UK bond market and China's Covid crisis
Defaults among emerging market companies continued to mount in the third quarter, the US investment bank said, due to troubles in Russia as well as China's property sector.
The threat of an escalation in the Ukraine War and the prospect of more interest rate hikes – hoisting the dollar even higher – weighed on investors
Dimon said the S&P 500 stock index could fall by "another easy 20%" from current levels, but that was likely to "be much more painful" than the 24% so far this year
The rupee was trading around 82.40 to the dollar on Tuesday, having hit a low of 82.6825 on Monday, currency traders said
Huatai-PineBridge applied for an ETF to invest in top Korean chip firms such as Samsung and SK Hynix, as well as Chinese chipmakers like SMIC and Montage Technology
Low supply of specialised chips are key challenge, Tata motors said, hoping that new supplier deals will boost sales in the second half of the fiscal year
A surprise drop in US unemployment dashed hopes of a pivot on tightening ahead of key inflation figures this week, which are expected to see core prices move higher again
Stagnant demand from China, monetary policy tightening, and high inflation were the key causes of falling exports, Finance Ministry official Beatrice Tsai said.
Analysts expect a 50 basis point hike in the key interest rate to 3.00% when the Bank of Korea reviews policy at its October 12 meeting.
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