Bloomberg China’s central bank pledged financial support for logistics firms and truck drivers to ensure the country can maintain supply chain stability amid the worst Covid outbreak in two years. The People’s Bank of China will ask lenders to “reasonably” extend and renew loans for the industry, it said in a statement, following a central bank meeting on coordinating …

  Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc plans to cut half of its existing office space in Singapore’s financial district, according to people familiar with the matter, in what is set to be the biggest floor reduction by a bank in the city-state in recent years. The London-based bank is giving up nine of the floors it leases at Marina Bay Financial …

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is likely to consider notable changes in its inflation and growth forecasts later this month mainly due to soaring oil and commodity prices, gains that aren’t viewed as sustainable, according to people familiar with the matter. The central bank will probably raise its projection for growth in key consumer prices to between around …