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Traders were on the lookout for signs of imminent Japanese intervention to prop up the struggling currency
Relentless Covid lockdowns have been blamed for denting investors’ appetite for Chinese assets with HK IPO issues falling to 9-year lows
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
Toshiba shares shot up on Thursday after reports of a possible takeover by a group of firms led by Japan Industrial Partners, a domestic private equity group
Japan says it is watching the yen’s slide “with a high sense of urgency” and is poised to “take appropriate steps on excess moves”
Byetdance hopes the move will motivate employees amid slowing growth and uncertainty over a plan to go public, sources said.
Asian equities wallowed at two-year lows, held down an unrelenting dollar rally, wobbles in the UK bond market and China's Covid crisis
Defaults among emerging market companies continued to mount in the third quarter, the US investment bank said, due to troubles in Russia as well as China's property sector.
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
Dimon said the S&P 500 stock index could fall by "another easy 20%" from current levels, but that was likely to "be much more painful" than the 24% so far this year
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