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Market attention has now jumped to China’s capital where authorities are in a race to keep a lid on the latest coronavirus outbreak
Investors are "ditching China on an unprecedented scale", because of Beijing's zero-Covid policy, the global rise in interest rates, and sanction risks from Russia's war in Ukraine, it says
New law restricts firms from releasing real-time data, which is a big concern for trading companies and logistics managers trying to follow supply chain movements
China’s worsening Covid situation saw its stock markets suffer their worst day in 27 months with investors worried over its impact on global supply chains
Lawmakers had questioned whether the foreign brokerages were making buy recommendations but actually selling TSMC shares
Sentiment was undermined by fears strict lockdown measures will spread to Beijing, after the capital required everyone living or working in Chaoyang district to take Covid tests this week
China's CSI300 index was close to a 23-month low on Monday, while the Hang Seng dropped 2.8% and the Nikkei fell 1.9%. Oil slipped 2.7%.
Officials in Beijing are on a "Covid-19 alert" and plan to test parts of the community in the Chinese capital after 15 new cases were found on Saturday, paper says
Toyota-backed tech firm gets a licence to operate 100 vehicles in Guangzhou's Nansha district. Rival groups are also testing self-driving cars in Shenzhen, Changsha and California.
Concern about rate hikes and war in Ukraine spurred investors to withdraw $15.2 billion, the biggest weekly amount since December 15, according to Refinitiv-Lipper data.
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