Bloomberg Anta Sports Products Ltd sank by the most in almost four months after the entry of a sizable stake in Hong Kong’s clearing system stoked speculation of a sale by a key shareholder. Shares of the Chinese sportswear maker slumped as much as 8% in Hong Kong, the most since October 24. The move came after exchange data ...

Bloomberg The pace of decline in Hong Kong’s population abated as the city moved to reopen after years of pandemic isolation. The city’s population fell by a net 12,900 people in the second half of 2022, down from a decrease of 55,400 in the first six months, according to government data. The previously announced population drop of 121,500 in the ...

  Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India published a list of 32 entities, including Alphabet Inc’s Google Pay, Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Pay and Reliance Payment Solutions Ltd, that are allowed to act as online payment aggregators. The names were released for “disseminating information and ensuring greater transparency,” the central bank said on its website. Other approved entities include Zomato Payments ...

  Bloomberg China’s home prices steadied in January, ending a 16-month decline after the government expanded stimulus policies for the sector. New-home prices in 70 cities, excluding state-subsidised housing, remained unchanged, compared with a 0.25% decline in December, National Bureau of Statistics figures showed. In the secondary market, existing-home prices dropped 0.28%, smaller than the 0.41% decline in the previous ...

  Bloomberg Japan’s trade deficit surged to a record in January, as one-off factors including the lunar new year holidays dragged on exports amid a backdrop of a slowing global economy. The trade gap jumped to Â¥3.5 trillion ($26.1 billion) from Â¥1.45 trillion in December, topping Â¥3 trillion for the first time in comparable data going back the late 1970s, ...

  Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co joined the latest funding round for Swedish fertility tracking app Natural Cycles as lead investor, seeking to introduce the female-health technology to its Galaxy series smartwatches. The Natural Cycles app, which monitors body temperature to gauge fertility, in 2018 became the first contraceptive of its kind to be approved by the US Food and Drug ...

  Bloomberg Keeping the cost of staple foods in check to protect the poor will be a top priority for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he plans for polls in several states this year and the all-important general election in 2024. That means the government will likely extend export curbs for wheat, which is an essential part of the ...

  Bloomberg China questioned whether the US genuinely seeks to repair ties damaged by the dispute over a balloon just as the two nations’ top diplomats head to a security conference in Germany, where they may have an opportunity to meet on the sidelines. The balloon saga “tests the US’s sincerity and capability to properly handle crises and stabilise relations ...

  Bloomberg India will begin work on its first all-weather highway to carry troops and hardware to its disputed Himalayan boundary with China and add 9,000 additional soldiers to bolster defenses at its border as tensions linger. The cabinet cleared the project to build a 4.1 kilometre (2.55 miles)-long tunnel through the mountains in the border state of Himachal Pradesh. ...

Bloomberg Commerzbank AG said it expects profits for this year to be significantly above the €1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) earned in 2022, as rising interest rates continue to hand European lenders their best results in years. The Frankfurt-based bank reported net income of €472 million for the fourth quarter, beating analyst expectations, and said that the result for the ...