Bloomberg Plant-based burger maker Beyond Meat Inc. is conducting further layoffs following a round of cuts made in August, according to people familiar with the matter. It wasn’t immediately clear how many workers were terminated. Beyond Meat asked employees to work from home and restricted access to documents. Management then set up individual calls to inform some workers that …

  Bloomberg Asian governments spent about $50 billion in foreign-exchange reserves last month — the highest level since March 2020 — to defend their currencies from a relentless advance in the US dollar. Exante Data Inc., a firm that specialises in tracking global capital flows, estimates emerging Asian nations excluding China spent nearly $30 billion with dollar sales in the …

  Bloomberg The yen fell to its lowest level in more than 30 years in the aftermath the hotter-than-expected US inflation report, before reversing the move in a whiplash trade that raised market chatter of potential intervention. The Japanese currency falls to 147.67 per dollar, the weakest since August 1990, before bouncing back in choppy trading. It fluctuated around the …