SEOUL (Reuters) – Customer withdrawals from MG Community Credit Cooperatives (MGCCC), a troubled South Korean credit union, have clearly stabilised amid government efforts to ward off a liquidity crunch, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. South Korean state-run banks this week pledged to offer liquidity support totalling at least 2 trillion won ($1.55 billion) to…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Germany’s Audi is in talks with SAIC Motor Corp to buy an electric vehicle platform from the Chinese state-owned automaker, two people familiar with the matter said, an unprecedented effort to shore up market share. The move, coming as sales of Audi’s EV products fall sharply behind those of Tesla and domestic…
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s export slump is expected to have accelerated in June, as sluggish overseas economies struggling with inflation and rising interest rates buy up fewer goods from Chinese factories. Outbound shipments from the world’s second-largest economy were projected to have fallen 9.5% year-on-year, following a drop of 7.5% in May,…
(This July 11 story has been corrected to add ‘CoinShares’ in paragraph 2 and ‘funds investing in crypto’ in paragraph 4) By Nell Mackenzie and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Global hedge funds not specialising in crypto assets have grown skittish from recent industry turmoil and this has lead to an exit from the sector,…
By Sakura Murakami and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he welcomed that Japan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had agreed on a new partnership programme, ahead of his attendance at the NATO Vilnius summit. At a joint announcement with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, Kishida said…
By Sam Nussey and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank is considering a U.S. listing for its PayPay payments business, three sources familiar with the matter said, in what could mark another American listing for Masayoshi Son’s sprawling tech conglomerate along with chip designer Arm. New York is seen as a more attractive destination than Tokyo…
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s top central banker said on Wednesday he is confident higher interest rates are working to cool inflation but it is possible they will have to rise further, suggesting a decision on whether to resume hiking in August may be a close one. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe…
By Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -ASEAN foreign ministers on Wednesday called for regional unity in addressing an intensifying conflict in Myanmar, amid doubts over the bloc’s capability to implement a two-year-old peace process that has yet to get off the ground. The gathering of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in…
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -Two top Australian banks said the number of home loan customers missing repayments remained below pre-COVID levels as a spike in living costs slows their discretionary spending, a sign that concerns of widespread financial distress may not materialise. After 400 basis points of interest rate hikes in 14 months, the…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese households’ inflation expectations rose in the three months to June, a central bank survey showed on Wednesday, adding to growing signs that conditions for phasing out massive monetary stimulus may be falling in place. The survey will be among factors the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will scrutinise in…
