August, 2022

• 31 August

  Taiwan warns of severe military challenge as China edges closer

  

  Bloomberg Taiwan warned it faces “severe military challenges” from surging Chinese military activity edging closer to the island, as Beijing tries to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. Taipei expects the People’s Liberation Army to continue sending warships and jets across the median line that divides the waterway, the island’s Ministry of National Defense said in an annual ...

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• 31 August

  Imran Khan to explain speech as Pakistan court mulls contempt

    Bloomberg A court in Pakistan told former Prime Minister Imran Khan to explain in writing his angry comments against a female judge who had denied bail to Khan’s close aid, as it continues to mull initiating contempt proceedings against him. A five-judge panel headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah directed the former leader to submit a response within a ...

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• 31 August

  German inflation quickens to record as ECB weighs next hike

  

  Bloomberg German inflation accelerated to the most since the euro was introduced on soaring energy prices, bolstering calls for a jumbo interest-rate increase when the European Central Bank meets next week. Consumer prices in Europe’s biggest economy, calculated under European Union harmonised standards, jumped 8.8% from a year ago in August, matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of ...

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• 31 August

  US job openings soar to 11.2 million in July

  

    Bloomberg US job openings rise unexpectedly in July after a sizable upward revision to the previous month, underscoring persistent tightness in the labour market as employers compete for a limited supply of workers. The number of available positions edged up to 11.2 million in the month — topping all estimates — from a revised 11 million in June, the ...

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• 31 August

  Swedish home prices to fall 15% from peak

    Bloomberg Swedish housing prices will continue falling until the middle of next year as the share of household income that goes towards mortgage interest payments is set to double, economists at the Nordic region’s largest bank said in a new forecast. Nordea Bank Abp now expects prices to drop 15% from a peak earlier this year, which is larger ...

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• 31 August

  Canada’s current account surplus hits $2.1bn in Q2

  

    Bloomberg Canada’s current account surplus came in much less than expected, as rising oil profits to foreign investors offset a surge in energy revenue. The country ran a current account surplus of C$2.7 billion ($2.1 billion) in the second quarter, Statistics Canada reported, well short of the C$6.8 billion projected by economists. The agency also cut its estimate for ...

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• 31 August

  As IPOs slump globally, all big deals are coming from China

  

    Bloomberg In a year where initial public offerings (IPOs) globally have slumped by more than two-thirds, one would expect the summer break to be especially quiet. Not so in Asia, where stock listings have notched their second-highest August haul on record. First-time share sales in the Asia Pacific region totaled $14.9 billion this month, data compiled by Bloomberg show. ...

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• 31 August

  Japan’s regulator proposes tax breaks for investors, crypto

  

    Bloomberg Japan’s financial regulator proposed easing corporate tax rules for crypto assets as well as lighter levies for individual stock investors in support of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s efforts to reinvigorate the economy. Companies should be exempted from paying taxes for paper gains on crypto coins that they hold after issuing them, the regulator proposed in its annual tax-code ...

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• 31 August

  AWS launches second ‘Region’ in UAE at AED18.37bn investment

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, on Tuesday announced the launch of its second Region in the Middle East, the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. AWS estimates that its projected spending on the construction and operation of the new Region will support an average of nearly 6,000 full-time jobs annually at external vendors, with ...

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• 31 August

  UAE relief distributed to drought victims in Somalia

    MOGADISHU / WAM Following the arrival of a UAE aid ship at the port of Mogadishu, Emirati charity organisations, in collaboration with the Somali Disaster Management Agency and other authorities responsible for distributing relief aid, have begun distributing aid to residents in areas affected by drought in parts of Mahas and Mataban in Hiran Governorate, Hirshabelle State. Mohammed Ahmed ...

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