Equities across the region tracked their US peers overnight bouncing back after a long retreat buoyed by economic support pledges from Beijing

Investors weren’t in the mood for risk-taking ahead of the latest US inflation figures and with it the prospect of more central bank tightening

Asian equities wallowed at two-year lows, held down an unrelenting dollar rally, wobbles in the UK bond market and China's Covid crisis

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

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

US Federal Reserve chiefs reasserted their commitment to capping inflation sending stock indexes across the region downwards again

Japan's Nikkei reached a two-week high but Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped on a thin day of trading ahead of key employment figures from the US

Hong Kong saw its best day in almost seven weeks, led by its tech stocks, but eyes will now be on US jobs data

Weaker US manufacturing figures raised expectations among Asian investors of a softer rate stance by the Federal Reserve

Japan’s Nikkei was the outlier, boosted by chips stocks and rallying oil prices, but markets elsewhere had little to be encouraged by

It was all about currencies again on Thursday as the soaring US dollar continues to hammer the yen, yuan and pound

Trading boards in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai were a sea of red again with central banks poised to hike rates even further as inflation soars