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Asian factories shake off supply headaches but Omicron presents new risks

Asian factory activity grew in November as crippling supply bottlenecks eased, but rising input costs and renewed weakness in China…

4 years ago

COVID-19 threatens to knock away Germany’s last pillar of growth

A surge in coronavirus infections in Germany is weighing on consumer morale in Europe's largest economy, dampening business prospects in…

4 years ago

Leadership shake-up to test Mexican central bank as inflation soars

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's surprise shakeup of the nomination process for the Bank of Mexico's (Banxico) next chief…

4 years ago

Asian shares on edge as U.S. bond yields rise, oil volatile

Share markets were jittery in early Asia on Wednesday as trading was buffeted by a step-up in U.S. Treasury yields…

4 years ago

Analysis: Indonesia, India beckon as Fed tapers without tantrums

This November 5th story corrected business name to BNP Paribas Asset Management, not Wealth Management, in paragraph 9

4 years ago

The UK is coping with rising inflation!

Public borrowing in the UK was almost a fifth lower last month than a year earlier when the economy was…

4 years ago