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Malaysia kept its benchmark interest unchanged on Thursday, saving its policy ammunition for later amid looming risks to inflation and ongoing measures to defend the ringgit.

Bank of Japan board members turned overwhelmingly hawkish at their April policy meeting with many calling for the need to raise interest rates steadily to forestall risks of an inflation overshoot, a summary of opinions at the meeting showed.

The momentum behind one of the world's biggest stock rallies in China will likely abate, according to Morgan Stanley.

Bank of Japan chief Kazuo Ueda said Tuesday after meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that the central bank will keep close tabs on the impact of the yen's recent sharp drop on inflation and its conduct of monetary policy.

Global private equity investors and asset managers are readying for billions of dollars worth of M&A and investments linked to data centres in Asia Pacific, as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom fuels demand for digital infrastructure.

Holdings of naphtha at sea balloon after investigation starts.Russian shipments to Taiwan and China increase, Kpler reports.

Asian markets forged higher Tuesday after another day of gains on Wall Street, although Hong Kong's benchmark faltered.

A rebound in the European industrial sector is still awaited. The second quarter of this year began rather unsatisfactorily both in the Eurozone and in Poland.

Bank of Japan data suggested authorities spent more than 9 trillion yen in defence of its currency,helping lift the yen from a 34-year low of 160.245 per dollar to a roughly one-month high of 151.86 over the span of a week.

Investors should be prepared for a recession with the potential to send the stock market plummeting this year, according to top forecaster Gary Shilling.