Bloomberg China’s economy continued to slow in December as the massive Covid-19 outbreak spread across the country, with activity slumping as more people stay home to try and avoid getting sick or to recover. Bloomberg’s aggregate index of eight early indicators showed a contraction in activity in December from an already weak pace in November and the outlook is ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp said its global output hit a record for November, thanks in part to solid consumer demand, though it warned of an uncertain outlook due to a persistent shortage of semiconductors and spikes in Covid cases in China. The world’s No. 1 automaker produced 833,104 vehicles last month, an increase of 1.5% from a year earlier. Global ...

  Bloomberg Japan’s buyers of Russian liquefied natural gas are assessing how imminent changes to shipping insurance — triggered by the ongoing war in Ukraine — will affect supplies from the key Sakhalin-2 project in Russia’s Far East. Three Japanese insurance companies — Tokio Marine Holdings Inc, Sompo Holdings Inc and MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc — will stop providing ...