China Southern Airlines Co. has added the Boeing Co. 737 Max back to its schedule in what would be the model’s first commercial passenger flight in China since regulators grounded it in 2019. The airline plans to deploy the Max from October 31 on at least one daily roundtrip from Guangzhou to both Wuhan and Zhengzhou, according to its booking …

Nigeria’s central bank will replace high-value currency notes starting December 15 in a bid to mop up excess cash, rein in inflation and target rising insecurity in Africa’s largest economy. The country’s banking regulator plans to issue redesigned 200, 500 and 1,000 naira notes, central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele said at a briefing in Abuja, the capital. The old notes …

The yuan leaped over the Australian, Canadian and Swiss currencies to become the fifth most traded currency in the world, according to the Bank for International Settlements’ Triennial Central Bank Survey. The Chinese currency was involved in 7% of all trades in 2022, compared with 4% three years ago, Basel-based BIS said in a report. Meanwhile, total daily trades rise …