Environmental, social and governance rules require investors to avoid defence stocks, discouraging big investors such as pension funds, while China and Russia have nationalised defence industries.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has also enlisted Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas and the Bank of China to help develop a global carbon market
The amount is "nearly 170% of the total raised in the first half of this year by all China-focused private equity and venture capital groups," the FT reported.
Investors were buoyed by news the US may scrap some tariffs on Chinese goods but new Covid outbreaks in eastern China weighed on any gains
Investor sentiment remains muted due to widespread fears of a global economic slowdown though Tokyo and China still found gains
KDDI shares declined about 4% on Monday after the biggest outage in the history of Japan's No-2 wireless carrier hit almost 40 million users
Rating agency Moody's is reviewing the Shanghai-based group as it sees a 'contagion risk' spreading to scores of companies across China, the US and Europe
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.