Bloomberg Chinese policy makers will step up support for the struggling private sector in 2019, with the state council announcing a series of measures for the firms, which have been hit hard by the slowing economy and trade tensions. The central bank will improve policies on targeted reserve-requirement ratio cuts and inclusive finance to further support private companies, according to ...

Bloomberg Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s cabinet approved a policy document on Tuesday, seeking to deflect criticism of a law that will open the door to foreign guest workers from April. Under the new framework, the number of workers coming from abroad will be limited to 345,150 over five years, according to a document distributed to reporters in advance of the ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration hasn’t assessed the impact of one of history’s most sweeping changes in currency policy. “No Madam,” was the Indian junior finance minister’s reply to a lawmaker’s question in parliament on December 14 on whether the government had studied the aftereffects of the move in November 2016 to invalidate almost all of the country’s currency ...