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Business investment into Singapore dropped 31% in 2021
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Business investment commitments into Singapore dropped about 31% last year, marking the first decline in five years and after hitting a more than decade high in 2020, government ...
Jan 25, 2022
Taiwan Q4 economic growth seen restrained, full year could exceed 6%- Reuters Poll
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's trade-reliant economy is expected to have expanded at a slightly faster pace in the fourth quarter supported by strong tech exports though unable to match the burning pace ...
Jan 25, 2022
Investors seek refuge in China as Fed, inflation roil other markets
By Samuel Shen and Andrew Galbraith SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Foreign investors are piling into China at the start of 2022, seeing it as a haven from the inflation, growth and pandemic problems plaguing mo...
Jan 25, 2022
China’s Shenzhen gets green light for next wave of reforms
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's state planner has given its blessing for the southern city of Shenzhen to pursue reforms in areas such as relaxed market access for cross border data trading and an...
Jan 25, 2022
Former Communist Party boss of China’s Hangzhou expelled – anti-graft watchdog
(Corrects spelling in paragraph 1 to Jiangyong, not Jianyong) SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Zhou Jiangyong, the former Communist Party secretary of China's eastern technology hub of Hangzhou, has been expelled...
Jan 25, 2022
Japan’s corporate service price index hits 20-year high
TOKYO (Reuters) - An index measuring the prices Japanese firms charge each other for services hit a more than two-decade high in December, a sign inflationary pressure was building on rising freight c...
Jan 25, 2022
China Evergrande to hold investor call on Wednesday – sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group will hold an investor call at 1300 GMT on Wednesday together with financial advisers, sources said. Executive Director Siu Shawn and a member of the proper...
Jan 25, 2022
Asian shares cautiously higher as investors await Fed policy update
By Stella Qiu and Alun John BEIJING (Reuters) - Asian share markets got off to a cautious start on Wednesday, after another volatile Wall Street session, as investors braced for the outcome of the Fed...
Jan 25, 2022
Oil dips on profit-taking ahead of Fed update
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices eased on Wednesday as investors booked profits ahead of an update from the U.S. Federal Reserve, although fears over tighter supply amid tensions in Ukrai...
Jan 25, 2022
Euro on defensive as traders fret over Ukraine tension, hawkish Fed
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The euro hovered near its weakest in a month versus the safe-haven dollar and yen on Wednesday as traders fretted over a potential military conflict in Ukraine and ...
Jan 25, 2022
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