Indonesia is battling its worst wildfire season in years, testing President Prabowo Subianto’s deep cuts to disaster funding.
Toxic haze is now spreading across the region, from Manila to Singapore. Kanupriya Kapoor explains what's fueling the fires. (Source: Bloomberg)
Nordic Compass, a competitiveness-focused business alliance, is considering branching out into critical raw materials to build up the region’s capacity to process minerals needed by European industry.
David Mann, Global Head of ETFs & Market Structure at Franklin Templeton, says the firm’s latest partnership with ChinaAMC is the first step in its strategy to collaborate with local asset managers and gain exposure to investment themes in mainland China. He speaks on Bloomberg’s ETF IQ Asia.
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The Pentagon is deploying an additional aircraft carrier and 10,000 sailors and Marines to the Persian Gulf, according to a US official, a move that gives American commanders more options if President Donald Trump chooses to escalate attacks on Iran. Bloomberg's Stuart Livingstone-Wallace has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Indonesia Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara pledged policy continuity and reaffirmed that the country will maintain its 3% GDP budget deficit cap, despite parliamentary debate over raising it. Speaking to Haslinda Amin, Nazara sought to reassure investors as amidst a backdrop of uncertainty over the currency. (Source: Bloomberg)
Hong Kong’s stock benchmark led losses in Asia as trading resumed after a holiday, pressured by the recent surge in US yields and disappointment over China’s latest stimulus measures.
Governments around the world are running out of room to shield consumers from higher energy prices resulting from the Iran war and other crises, with fuel subsidies potentially costing more than $1 trillion this year, a United Nations study found.
The New Zealand dollar is poised to cap its longest run of weekly declines since early 2025 as higher oil prices and the risks of a close election weigh on the currency, with market strategists warning of further losses ahead.
Credit markets are showing signs of caution, as surging bond yields, growing inflation fears, and record borrowings make high-grade company debt seem like less of a bastion of safety.
Indonesia has room for a global bond sale this quarter as the government plans its borrowing program for the rest of the year, according to the nation’s newly appointed finance chief.
Indonesia’s new finance chief signaled he’ll stay in his lane and let the central bank and the Danantara sovereign wealth fund handle their own mandates, a bid to restore investor confidence in President Prabowo Subianto’s broad economic policy.
Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management’s Shinji Kunibe said that funds in his global fixed-income group have sold their entire holdings of French government bonds amid concerns about the nation’s fiscal situation, shifting funds to German bunds and short-term Japanese government bonds.
The head of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas buyer expects disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz to persist, further curtailing flows from a region that accounted for about a fifth of global supply before the Middle East war.
Market gyrations, rising prices, military conflicts and artificial intelligence worries have posed challenges for dealmaking in Asia and elsewhere. But pockets of activity in places like Australia, Japan and China have managed to keep transactions humming along.
