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Philippine shares plunged on Monday to lead losses among emerging Asian equities, after the country imposed border curbs to restrict the new Omicron coronavirus variant, while the Thai baht slid for a seventh straight session.
The militaries of the Philippines and the United States launched joint patrols on Tuesday in waters near Taiwan, officials of the Southeast Asian nation said, a move likely to fan further tension with China.
India and the European Union are holding potentially decisive trade negotiations in New Delhi this week, seeking to resolve differences over agriculture, dairy and non-tariff barriers to meet an ambitious end of year deadline for a deal, Indian government and EU sources said.
India is likely to see below-average monsoon rains for the first time in three years in 2026, the government said on Monday, stoking concerns over farm output and growth in Asia's third-largest economy as it battles inflation driven by the Iran war.
The only U.S. cobalt mine sits fallow in the northern Idaho woods, a mothballed hunk of steel and dirt that is too expensive for its owner to operate because Chinese rivals have flooded global markets with cheap supplies of the bluish metal used in electric vehicle batteries and electronics.
This year’s United Nations climate summit in Dubai is unlikely to achieve much because all 197 states must agree on decisions. The need for unanimity is a recipe for twiddling thumbs while the planet fries.
India is unlikely to sign a deal with richer nations this year for a just energy transition, as international funding rests on India committing to a timeline to phase out coal, an "unviable" proposition for the country, energy analysts said.
Malaysia's government and companies must address mounting allegations of workplace abuse of migrant labourers who fuel the country's economy, or face risks to its export-reliant growth model, experts warn.
Just when you thought it was safe to hope interest rates might soon peak, along comes more bad news. It looks likely that the El Nino weather phenomenon has returned, according to both the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Its appearance usually results in, or exacerbates, floods, heatwaves, water scarcity and wildfires, especially in the southern hemisphere. The damage these inflict on crops and infrastructure is inflationary, putting pressure on central banks to tighten monetary policy. If climate change makes such events stronger and more frequent, supply shocks will become embedded.
In fields near Argentine farm town Pergamino, spiky green shoots of wheat stretch in neat rows to the horizon, a crop developers hope will boost yields of the grain thanks to a single gene borrowed from sunflowers helping it better tolerate drought.
China's Ant Group Co Ltd , has been cutting funding and staff support to many of the overseas e-wallet firms it has invested in as it pivots away from earlier ambitions of becoming a global payments leader, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
In 1973, a barrel of crude would create $1,000 of economic output; it's less than half a barrel today. In the short term, the Iran fallout is bound to erode wealth. Over the long run, however, pricier fossil fuels will alienate consumers and accelerate the green-energy movement.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles on Wednesday, presenting herself as a champion of European business as she defended her track record ahead of elections next year.
Top level skiers change hemisphere and travel thousands of kilometres to get snow all year round, but Margaux Hackett will always feel at home on both sides of the Equator.
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The Philippines on Tuesday accused China's coast guard of harassment and of damaging two of its boats in a disputed area of the South China Sea, rejecting Beijing's position that it had expelled those vessels from the hotly contested shoal.
Investors maintained bearish bets on most emerging Asian currencies as an escalation of the Middle East conflict and prospects of higher-for-longer U.S. interest rates pushed them towards safe-haven assets, a Reuters poll found on Thursday.
Emerging Asian markets rebounded on Wednesday after a three-day rout as investors bought into regional equities beaten down since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and after a halt in nickel trading helped modestly stabilise soaring metal prices.
Investors raised short positions on emerging Asian currencies, with bearish bets on the Indonesian rupiah jumping sharply, as the U.S. dollar remained resilient amid uncertainty over the timeline of the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.
Russia is scattering the seeds of political instability across the world. Since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine two weeks ago, prices of wheat, maize and soybean have rocketed to record or near-record levels. A previous price spike in 2007 led to food riots in Africa and Asia. This year’s bread crunch may be worse.