Bloomberg Australia’s central bank kept its key policy instruments unchanged Tuesday following the cooling of a global bond selloff and as the impact of record-low interest rates on asset markets comes into focus. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe and his board held the cash rate and three-year yield target at 0.10% and made no changes to the ...

Bloomberg Singapore once again warned the public about the risks of trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, a market that while relatively small in the city-state surged in significance over the past year. “Cryptocurrencies can be highly volatile, as their value is typically not related to any economic fundamentals,” Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said in response ...

Bloomberg American stock futures dipped, suggesting the rally that drove the S&P 500 to an all-time high may pause as concern China is curtailing loan growth tempered optimism stoked by the US economic rebound. Contracts on the S&P 500 slipped along with those on the Nasdaq 100 after large US technology stocks rise, including a surge by Facebook Inc. to ...