Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. expects Asian companies to raise as much as $100 billion next year through environmental, social and governance (ESG) dollar-denominated bonds, with an increasing number of firms considering notes that can be converted into equity. ESG debt sales by Asian issuers total $74 billion so far in 2021, nearly triple the level in the same period ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s underperforming stocks will likely rebound in 2022, with a border reopening with mainland China to benefit gaming and retail shares while rising yields hold banks up, according to UBS Group AG. The city’s benchmark Hang Seng Index may gain as much as 13% next year, analysts led by Angus Chan wrote in a note, targeting a level ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank has signalled a limit to its tolerance for the yuan’s recent advance by setting its reference rate at a weaker-than-expected level. The gap between the daily fixing set by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the forecast in a Bloomberg survey of analysts and traders was the largest since mid-October. That was when yuan gains ...