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...Due diligence on potential customers should not “create undue burden”, particularly “for those setting up an office in Hong Kong to look for the opportunities here”, the HKMA said to the banks in an April...
...But the sides fell out, and the IUCN task force called off the agreement with Jardines in April 2023, criticising the subsidiary’s approach and saying its own role had been reduced to a “tick-box exercise...
...Japan’s economy beat forecasts to grow at an annualised rate of 6 per cent during the April-June period, but inflation has remained above the central bank’s 2 per cent target for 16 months....
...The S&P 500 shed 1.4 per cent on Wednesday, its biggest daily drop since late April, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 2.2 per cent — its steepest daily decline since February....
...Raw material input costs measured in the country’s official manufacturing sector purchasing managers’ index contracted for three consecutive months from April to June, before rising again in July and August...
...Japanese producer price index inflation moderated in April, falling short of analysts’ expectations, according to data from the Bank of Japan....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, and US marker West Texas Intermediate each added as much as 0.6 per cent to hit $86.73 and $83.30 a barrel respectively, the highest levels since mid-April....
...Data: Japan releases household spending data for April and the Japan Automobile Dealers Association issues May sales figures....
...The blue-chip index rose 0.3 per cent on Tuesday, reaching its highest closing level since April 2022, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.6 per cent....
...William Langley Is UK inflation starting to fall?...
...Japan inflation: April consumer price index inflation rate figures are due today. National core CPI is forecast to have increased to 3.4 per cent, up from 3.1 per cent in March....
...Japanese imports declined for the first time in more than two years in April as falling costs complicated the Bank of Japan’s path to normalising monetary policy....
...China inflation: April’s consumer price index and producer price index rate are set to be released....
...Data: China issues April retail sales, industrial output and unemployment data. The Reserve Bank of Australia publishes minutes of its most recent monetary policy meeting....
...Beijing on Sunday banned operators of key infrastructure from buying products made by the Boise, Idaho-based Micron over security concerns, following a review that started in April....
...The company in April opened a store in Chungking Mansions, a densely populated and sprawling building in Kowloon, home to immigrant communities from all over Asia....
...Both readings were boosts from a low base in April last year, when the economy was stifled by strict Covid-19 curbs....
...The regulator in April suspended trading in 11 ETFs issued by the company — a move described by analysts as unprecedented — after it missed a deadline to file its financials....
...The dollar weakened against Asian currencies on Thursday after US April consumer price index inflation came in weaker than expected....
...The most active contract on the Chicago Board of Trade slipped as much as 0.7 per cent to trade at $6.00½ per bushel, the lowest price since April 2021, before paring losses to be down about 0.2 per cent...
...The renminbi has also been hit by pessimism over China’s economic prospects, following weak April economic data....
...India’s service sector grew at its fastest pace in nearly 13 years in April, according to a closely watched private gauge, as business optimism grew and international and domestic demand expanded....
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