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South Korea turmoil, PBOC rate cuts

China’s biggest policy meeting in six years kicks will kick off this week. Wang Yukun | Moment | Getty Images China stocks extended declines on Friday in a bumpy start to the new year, despite gains in the broader Asia-Pacific region, as investors assessed Beijing’s policy signals. Mainland China’s benchmark CSI 300 index fell 1.18% […]

Business & Finance

South Korea turmoil, PBOC rate cuts

The Sydney Opera House Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Gallo Images | Brand X Pictures | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Friday, breaking ranks with Wall Street peers that ended lower on the first trading session of 2025, weighed down by tech stocks. The People’s Bank of China is reportedly planning to cut interest […]

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Asian markets resume trading after New Year’s Day holiday; China PMI

Bustling city, Dongsanhuan Ring Road, CBD, Beijing, China. Xiaoyang Liu/Construction Photography/Avalon | Getty Images Asian stocks traded mixed Thursday, with China stocks leading losses as several major markets resumed trading after New Year’s Day holiday. China’s Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers’ index for December fell to 50.5, missing economists’ forecast of 51.7 in a Reuters […]

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Bank of Japan, PBOC, Japan CPI, Fed rate cut

A Japanese flag is displayed as shoppers and pedestrians walk past stores at a shopping street in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened higher on Friday with Japan’s Nikkei 225 leading gains, after Wall Street soared overnight following the Federal Reserve’s outsized rate cut. […]