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Taiwan's Pegatron, which assembles iPhones for Apple, has suspended operations at its Shanghai and Kunshan plants in China due to moves to control the spread of Covid-19, it said on Tuesday
Surging inflation, looming higher interest rates, supply chain bottlenecks and the Ukraine war are among factors that brought the market back to earth.
But the picture elsewhere was less hopeful as world stocks slipped to their lowest levels in almost a month
German auto parts supplier said on Tuesday it has suspended production at two sites in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Changchun as it follows government policies to contain Covid cases.
Daily Journal Corp, the company where Warren Buffett's business partner Charlie Munger helps oversee investments, said on Monday it halved its stake in China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group
China is encouraging long-term investors to buy more equities and major shareholders of listed firms to increase holdings when stocks slump, to stabilise a market rocked by the Covid outbreak.
Chinese stocks suffered their biggest fall in a month as Covid restrictions and inflation worries weighed heavily on investors
India‘s benchmark 10-year bond yield hit its highest level in nearly three years on Monday as investor sentiment turned bearish after a hawkish tilt from the RBI's monetary policy committee
President Joe Biden will talk to Indian leader Narendra Modi on Monday, at a time when the US has made clear it does not want to see a big uptick in Russian energy imports by India
Chinese oil giant CNOOC said on Monday it will raise 28.08 billion yuan ($4.4 billion) in a listing in Shanghai, after setting the price for what will be the mainland 11th-biggest public stock offering
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