Hong Kong’s connectivity and talent pool could help facilitate international legal and economic collaboration, the justice minister and an expert have said, as they joined representatives from more than 25 jurisdictions this week at an annual forum in the city. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the five-day Hong Kong Legal Week forum on Monday,…
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China is in talks with Japan and South Korea – both US allies – about a possible trilateral currency swap to bolster the region’s financial safety net and deepen economic cooperation amid US President Donald Trump’s trade war, according to a source familiar with the issue. Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China…
Kristalina Georgieva (Bloomberg) — Central bankers, already uneasy about trade tensions and swelling public debt, will collectively confront a new worry in the coming week: the danger of a market crash. Global policymakers and finance ministers will gather in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings after a chorus of warnings that a…
For people who monitor interest rates for a living, it has been a hectic week, with several major central banks making announcements. But besides finance professionals, Hong Kong people are also keenly interested. With their mortgages and business loans – and the economy in general – running on a currency pegged to the US dollar,…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Monday warned it would go after any European state that sought to take its assets after reports that the European Union is looking for new ways to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. The U.S. and its allies prohibited transactions with the Russian…
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) -Japanese and Taiwanese shares set records on Thursday as technology companies rallied while investors wagered that U.S. inflation data will be well behaved enough to ensure an interest rate cut next week, and perhaps two more by year end. Before then, the European Central Bank is widely expected to hold…
By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank should keep interest rates steady as the euro zone economy is holding its own in the face of U.S. tariffs and inflation may still come in higher than expected, ECB policymaker Isabel Schnabel told Reuters. The central bank for the 20 countries that…
(Bloomberg) — Stocks staged a modest rebound from a technology-led selloff, setting a steadier tone at the outset of a month that could bring plenty of tests to markets trading near record highs. Most Read from Bloomberg Europe’s Stoxx 600 (^STOXX) advanced 0.2%. BAE Systems Plc (BA.L, BAESY) and Rheinmetall AG (RNMBY, RHM.DE) led gains…
I’m Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston. Today we’re looking at Europe-China ties. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here. Fifty years after the European Economic Community (now the European Union) established diplomatic ties with mainland China, relations…