A Wall Street rout sparked a slump across Asia on a gloomy day for investors worried about growth in China and war in Eastern Europe

China blue-chips fell as trade data highlighted impact of Beijing’s strict Covid restrictions and lockdowns on world’s No-2 economy

Market attention has now jumped to China’s capital where authorities are in a race to keep a lid on the latest coronavirus outbreak

Markets were surprised by central bank’s caution knocking optimism over Beijing’s pledges to support China’s slowing economy

China stocks closed up after Beijing promised a cut in the reserve requirement ratio, while Hong Kong and Tokyo were buoyed by falls in US bond yields

Chinese investors were in downbeat mood as Covid outbreaks and weak imports dented sentiment while traders in Hong Kong and Tokyo shrugged off soaring US prices

Fed minutes released yesterday reveal it’s ready to take an uncompromising approach to soaring prices and inflation causing headaches at home and abroad

Pressure on China’s economy has intensified with news that its services activity contracted at its steepest pace in two years last month, as the Covid surge began

Asia’s markets capped a month-long recovery but trade was low-key as worries over Fed policy tightening and the conflict in Ukraine cast a shadow

US bank has warned that the combination of Russia's war in Ukraine and China's property crash could see the worst wave of corporate defaults since the global financial crisis

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has said the island will ramp up the development of drones, after seeing how they had helped Ukraine resist the Russian invasion

International Energy Agency members gave the green light to an unspecified coordinated oil release just a day after the US said it would tap into its Strategic Petroleum Reserve