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The fund's deputy managing director Kenji Okamura said the Covid pandemic, war in Ukraine and tougher global financial conditions would make this year "challenging" for Asia
The statement comes as oil prices rebounded from two days of losses in a volatile session, bolstered by weakness in the US dollar
The gain was much stronger than a 0.8% year-on-year rise in March, as the impact of mobile phone fee cuts fades
Tencent sank by more than 6%, Alibaba dropped 7.39%, while its e-commerce rival JD.com was down 3.7% and Meituan slipped by nearly 3.8%
China's economic slowdown and its crackdown on tech companies have been blamed for new stock listings in Hong Kong plummeting to a nine-year low
A Wall Street slump brought the mood down across Asian trading floors with Hong Kong tech firms like Tencent and Alibaba hit hardest
The bank said inflation would remain elevated in the near-term due to supply-side pressures while economic growth will also record a setback
The rupee weakened to about 198.39 to the dollar on Wednesday, the central bank said, a historic low that means it has lost almost a quarter of its value in the past year
Prudential investment unit PGIM said crypto is an unreliable portfolio diversifier and an inadequate safe-haven asset or inflation hedge
The electric carmaker was dropped from the widely followed S&P 500 ESG Index because of issues of racial discrimination and crashes linked to its autopilot
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