SHANGHAI: Shanghai stocks fell the most in nearly 10 months on Monday while Hong Kong shares had their worst day since November as a rout in commodities markets hit sentiment across the region.

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NEW DELHI, Feb 2 — India’s government and central bank are in talks with Ant International about allowing Al...

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A rout in gold and silver intensified on Monday after top commodity exchange CME Group raised margin requirements following a collapse in metals prices last week that was triggered by Kevin Warsh's nomination as the next Fed chair.

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Oil prices fell nearly 5% on Monday, heading for the steepest single-session decline in more than 6 months, after U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran was "seriously talking" with Washington, signalling de-escalation with an OPEC member.

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SINGAPORE: Commodities markets slumped on Monday, led by deep losses in gold, silver, oil and industrial metals as the choice of Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair set off a wave of selling in risk assets that sent precious metals tumbling for a second ...

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SINGAPORE, Feb 2 — Indonesian stocks slid today, weighed down by a selloff in commodities, after a tumultuous week...

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INDONESIAN and South Korean stocks tumbled more than 5% each on Monday, while emerging Asian currencies slipped against the U.S. dollar, as investors weighed how President Donald Trump's pick for the Federal Reserve chair could shape U.S. monetary poli...

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HONG KONG: Shares of BYD Co Ltd sank to their lowest level in at least a year on Monday, leading a broader selloff in Chinese automaker stocks after they reported weaker sales in January as a revised subsidy scheme weighed on budget car brands.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby Property Bhd continues to hold an AA+IS rating with a stable outlook on its RM4.5bil Islamic Medium-Term Notes (IMTN) Programme (Sukuk Musharakah), following a reaffirmation by MARC Ratings Bhd.

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DUBAI, Feb 2 — Global inflation is expected to fall to 3.8 per cent this year and to 3.4 per cent in 2027, helped...

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TOKYO: Asia's factory activity expanded in January as solid global demand lifted export orders, private-sector surveys showed on Monday, offering policymakers some assurance the hit from higher U.S. tariffs has run its course for now.

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JAKARTA, Feb 2 — Indonesia imported 1,383 more cows from Australia this week, agriculture officials said today, as...

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FOR Huang Xiaozhen, the future of artificial intelligence isn't about computing power or algorithmic scale, but about something far more ordinary: the quiet click of a light switch.

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Gold fell, following its biggest plunge in more than a decade, and silver whipsawed in choppy trading after a dramatic reversal of a record-breaking rally that ran too far, too fast.

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SINGAPORE: The dollar clung to its gains on Monday as investors weighed what a Federal Reserve under Kevin Warsh might look like, with his preference for a smaller balance sheet.

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SYDNEY, Feb 2 — Asian shares followed Wall Street futures deep into the red today as chaotic selling in precious m...

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SINGAPORE: Indonesian stocks slid on Monday, weighed down by a selloff in commodities, after a tumultuous week during which a warning from MSCI over transparency concerns triggered an US$80 billion market rout and the country's top financial regulators...

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HONG KONG: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Eddie Yue said on Monday the regulator expects to issue its first batch of stablecoin issuer licences in March, with only a "very small number" to be granted initially.

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TOKYO: Japan's manufacturing activity grew at the fastest pace in about three and a half years in January, a private-sector survey showed, as strong customer demand drove an increase in output and new orders.

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HONG KONG, Feb 2 — The Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Eddie Yue said today the regulator expects to...

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SYDNEY: Australian home prices started the year with solid gains nationally, though the major markets of Sydney and Melbourne showed some fatigue given stretched affordability and concerns about rising mortgage rates.

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TAIZHOU, Feb 2 — Gao Xianghua is a happy mom this year because she knows her teenage kids will eagerly finish the...

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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — The Rubber Production Incentive (IPG) for cuplump and latex has been activated in Sabah and...

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TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average rallied on Monday as a weaker yen and a strong election poll for fiscal dove Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's party boosted demand for risk assets.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's seasonally adjusted S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose slightly to 50.2 in January from 50.1 in December, staying just above the neutral 50.0 mark.

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