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Workers for an express delivery company sort packages along a sidewalk in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. A meeting of the ruling Communist Party to install leaders gives President Xi Jinping, China's most influential figure in decades, a chance to stack the ranks with allies who share his vision of intensifying pervasive control over entrepreneurs and technology development. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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China's Xi gets chance to tighten hold on economy at meeting
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Wed,10/12/22-8:20PM , 155 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping, China’s most influential figure in decades, gets a chance to install more allies who share his vision of an even more dominant role in the economy for the ruling Communist Party and tighter control over entrepreneurs at a party meeting that starts this weekend.
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A currency trader talks on the phone at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Asian stock markets fell Thursday ahead of an update on U.S. inflation that investors worry will reinforce the Federal Reserve's plans for more aggressive interest rate hikes. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Asian stocks fall ahead of US inflation update
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Wed,10/12/22-1:22AM , 204 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Thursday ahead of an update on U.S. inflation that investors worry will reinforce the Federal Reserve's plans for more aggressive interest rate hikes.

Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul. Oil prices edged lower.
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A man wearing a face mask is reflected on an electronic foreign currency exchange rates in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Asian shares followed Wall Street lower Friday ahead of U.S. jobs data investors hope will persuade the Federal Reserve to ease off plans for more interest rate hikes. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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Asian stock markets fall ahead of US employment update
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writers
Thu,10/06/22-12:22AM , 135 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Asian shares followed Wall Street lower Friday ahead of U.S. jobs data investors hope will persuade the Federal Reserve to ease off plans for more interest rate hikes.

Tokyo and Hong Kong, the region's biggest markets, retreated. Chinese markets were closed for a holiday. Oil prices were little-changed.
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A currency trader walks by the screen showing the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Asian stocks were mixed Thursday after strong U.S. hiring dampened hopes the Federal Reserve might ease off plans for interest rate hikes and the OPEC group of oil exporters agreed to output cuts to shore up prices. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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Asian stocks mixed on strong US hiring, OPEC oil output cuts
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Wed,10/05/22-1:38AM , 169 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Thursday after strong U.S. hiring dampened hopes the Federal Reserve might ease off plans for interest rate hikes and the OPEC group of oil exporters agreed to output cuts to shore up prices.
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