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(Reuters) – The Biden administration is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese semiconductor firms linked to Huawei Technologies Co, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter. The companies that could be blacklisted include chipmakers Qingdao Si’En, SwaySure, and Shenzhen Pensun Technology Co, the report said, adding that U.S. officials are also …

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(Reuters) – Asian bonds attracted their largest monthly inflow in three months in February, helped by expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would cut rates later this year, and also boosted by the region’s strong exports. Foreign investors accumulated a net $4.41 billion of bonds in India, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand last month, …

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By Naomi Rovnick and Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – Global interest rates are in flux. The Bank of Japan, a holdout dove as central banks across the developed world raised borrowing costs from late 2021, finally called time on its easy money era on Tuesday. Most other big central banks, in contrast, are on the …

BOJ joins a rate-hike party that other big central banks have left Read More »

By Brigid Riley and Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will scale back the maximum limit of its purchases of Japanese government bonds, it said on Tuesday, after ending its radical stimulus policies of negative interest rates and yield curve control (YCC). The BOJ has been an aggressive bond buyer to …

BOJ cuts maximum limit of JGB purchase amount after major policy shift Read More »

By Mark John and Francesco Canepa (Reuters) – Eighteen months after Europe ended its decade-long experiment with negative interest rates, the Bank of Japan has done the same with its first rate hike in 17 years. It marks the end of an era few expect to see again. Brought in after the late 2000s global …

Analysis-Negative rates era unlikely to be revisited soon Read More »

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan (BOJ) ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from its focus on reflating growth with decades of massive monetary stimulus. While the move was Japan’s first interest rate hike in 17 years, …

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