Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) struck an upbeat note on the economy, while maintaining that faster wages growth and inflation will take some time and the first interest-rate increase is unlikely before 2024. The economy will expand 3% this year, despite a likely sharp contraction in the third quarter due to virus lockdowns, and then accelerate to 5.5% ...

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc asked all of its Hong Kong staff to get vaccinated against the Covid virus after city authorities issued a new circular to push for higher inoculation rates. Colleagues who have not received a first dose should either get inoculated by November 30 or submit to a Covid-19 test every 14 days, the London-based bank, which counts ...

Bloomberg China’s fiscal policy will provide the main support to economic growth next year while significant monetary easing is unlikely, according to a former adviser to China’s central bank. “The economy overall really is still okay and we will see average growth this year at around 8%,” Huang Yiping, a former member of the People’s Bank of China’s monetary policy ...