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The 2% target: Central banks’ inflation touchstone faces post-pandemic reckoning
By Howard Schneider, Balazs Koranyi and William Schomberg WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – Top central bankers, who credit the use of a…
RBI to hike repo rate by 25 bps in Feb, ending tightening cycle: Reuters poll
By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India is expected to raise its main interest rate by…
South Korea Jan exports to extend falling streak to fourth month: Reuters poll
By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s January export data will likely show an annual fall for a fourth…
China’s 2022 smartphone sales plunge to lowest level in a decade
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s smartphone sales endured a record fall in 2022, tumbling 13% to their lowest…
Toyota defends title as world’s top-selling automaker in 2022
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp sold 10.5 million vehicles in 2022, it said on Monday, defending its title as…
China’s Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style bot in March -source
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese internet search major Baidu Inc is planning to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot service similar…
Taiwan export orders seen contracting at faster pace in Dec: Reuters poll
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s export orders likely contracted again in December and at a faster clip than the previous month,…
BOJ Kuroda stresses need to maintain ultra-easy policy
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Monday stressed the importance of maintaining ultra-loose monetary policy to…
India’s Gautam Adani: Asia’s richest man in eye of a storm
By Shivam Patel, Aditi Shah and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s Gautam Adani, the school drop-out turned billionaire who…