Category: Markets

China’s export dominance during the coronavirus pandemic is best reflected by the item that’s become essential in protecting against the virus: face masks. Factories exported 224 billion of masks from … Read More

China plans to allow some commercial banks to start selling soured personal loans to distressed asset managers as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the matter. At … Read More

Payoneer Inc., an online payments specialist, is in talks to go public through a merger with FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp., a blank-check firm, according to people with knowledge of the … Read More

Australia’s consumer price index will be lifted by a jump in childcare costs, with cross-currents in other items ranging from falling rents to increasing costs for dining out. The rise … Read More

Welcome to Tuesday, Asia. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help you start the day: Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen on Tuesday steps into a new … Read More

San Francisco’s office market is being hit so hard by the pandemic that, by some measures, it’s worse than the global financial crisis or dot-com collapse. The city’s office-vacancy rate … Read More

India’s benchmark equity index fell, even while set to extend its longest weekly winning streak in 11 years, as the nation prepares to begin one of the world’s biggest inoculation … Read More

Just as the U.K. enters another national lockdown, the stars are lining up for Britain’s long-suffering equities. Fresh from its worst annual drop in more than a decade, the benchmark … Read More

Two of the country's most respected fund managers – Allen Gray managing director Simon Mawhinney and IML 's Anton Tagliaferro – have dismissed claims insurers are becoming un-investable due to … Read More

India’s stocks rose, with the benchmark index on course for its longest stretch of weekly gains since 2009 as vaccine optimism and expectations of more U.S. stimulus buoyed sentiment. The … Read More