The Bank of Japan is still unsure whether to hike its interest rate next week, but keen to unveil its plan to halve bond buying, sources say

Demand concerns for the world’s No2 economy cast a shadow across the region’s trading floors, trumping a U-turn in technology shares

The amount raised so far this year from China is up 1,588% on the same period in 2023, the LSEG data showed; Japan's deal value has increased by 486%.

Investors across the region took Biden’s election withdrawal in their stride but the impact of last week’s Microsoft-related outage was still being felt

Foreign investor flows into Asian bonds also dropped 34% in the first six months of the year, data showed

Chinese banks were seen to have issued 2.25 trillion yuan ($309.38 billion) in new yuan loans last month, compared to 950 billion yuan in May

Market participants and analysts believe the move paves the way for a new interest rate corridor, with the seven-day reverse repo rate serving as a central guide

PBOC says it has signed deals with major financial institutions to borrow medium- and long-term bonds and will sell them depending on market conditions in a bid to cool a major rally

The bond bull run mirrors investor pessimism over an economy grappling with a real estate crisis, local government debt woes and heightened geopolitical risks

A rate hike may be on the table at the BoJ's next meeting at the end of July, when the bank will unveil its plan on how it will trim its huge bond buying

The Shenzhen-based developer has been working to restructure its offshore debt since defaulting on $12 billion in offshore debt payments in late 2021

PBOC head signals it may begin trading soon after noting that China must address the kind of risks that led to the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank in the US