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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul's Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday's circuit-breaker plunge…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 6 min read
People's Bank of China (PBoC) Governor Pan Gongsheng told G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Bangkok on 15 October that…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday's hot US inflation print reached the region's chipmakers: Seoul's Kospi dived 7.57…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
China's central bank and the central banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will further advance local-currency cooperation, deepen cooperation in cross-border…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
China's goods trade passed 5 trillion yuan in a single month for the first time in September. The General Administration of Customs…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Wednesday ahead of a US inflation report due in the evening, and Taiwan's Taiex rose…
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Macro · Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
China's consumer prices rose 0.9 percent in September from a year earlier, up from 0.8 percent in August, and producer prices rose…
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Markets · Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Seoul's Kospi sank 5.46 percent on Tuesday, its worst day since mid-August, as reported progress by China's memory chipmaker CXMT set off…
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Macro · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea and China agreed on 13 October to keep their supply chain hotline running as a standing channel for monitoring critical…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Five of the eight Asian indices open on Monday closed lower, led by Seoul, where the Kospi plunged 3.65 percent in a…
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EU · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
China's Ministry of Commerce said on 12 October that its hybrid car understanding with the EU is an "upward arrangement", in our…
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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 8 min read
China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič ended the second meeting of the…
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Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul’s Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday’s circuit-breaker plunge and Tokyo’s Nikkei up 1.39 percent after six straight declines, while Shenzhen’s component index slipped 0.12 percent for a fifth session, the only decline on the board. India’s Nifty 50 added 0.65 percent…
People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Governor Pan Gongsheng told G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Bangkok on 15 October that intensifying geopolitical conflict remains the biggest uncertainty for the world economy, and that large swings in some countries’ government bond markets and the risk of a correction in AI-related asset valuations have added…
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday’s hot US inflation print reached the region’s chipmakers: Seoul’s Kospi dived 7.57 percent through a circuit breaker to a six-month low in a seventh straight decline, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 4.90 percent in a sixth, and India’s Nifty 50 rose 1.66 percent as the day’s…
China’s central bank and the central banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will further advance local-currency cooperation, deepen cooperation in cross-border payments and expand two-way investment, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said on 15 October after their fourth governors’ meeting in Bangkok on 14 October. PBoC Governor Pan Gongsheng also renewed the bilateral…
China’s goods trade passed 5 trillion yuan in a single month for the first time in September. The General Administration of Customs put the month at 5.16 trillion yuan in preliminary figures, 27.5 percent above September 2025. Exports rose 29.6 percent to 3.03 trillion yuan and imports rose 24.6 percent to 2.13 trillion yuan. Over…
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Wednesday ahead of a US inflation report due in the evening, and Taiwan’s Taiex rose 0.59 percent to 48,625.83, the day’s only gain. China’s September numbers ran hot, with factory-gate prices up 5 percent and exports up 36.3 percent, yet Shanghai lost 0.88 percent and Shenzhen 1.97. Seoul’s…
China’s consumer prices rose 0.9 percent in September from a year earlier, up from 0.8 percent in August, and producer prices rose 5.0 percent, up from 3.8 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said on 14 October. On the month, consumer prices rose 0.2 percent and producer prices 1.2 percent. The gap between producer and…
Seoul’s Kospi sank 5.46 percent on Tuesday, its worst day since mid-August, as reported progress by China’s memory chipmaker CXMT set off a selloff in the region’s semiconductor stocks. Tokyo returned from its holiday to a split verdict, the Nikkei 225 down 1.82 percent while the Topix edged higher, and Taipei’s Taiex lost 1.95 percent….
South Korea and China agreed on 13 October to keep their supply chain hotline running as a standing channel for monitoring critical goods, at talks in Huizhou in China’s Guangdong province, as trade between the two economies rose 51.3 percent to 263.1 billion dollars in the first eight months of 2026. Customs data show that…
Five of the eight Asian indices open on Monday closed lower, led by Seoul, where the Kospi plunged 3.65 percent in a fourth straight decline. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.76 percent in the day’s strongest gain, Singapore and Hong Kong edged higher, and Tokyo’s equity markets sat the session out for the Sports Day holiday….