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Bank Indonesia's monetary easing cycle has likely come to an end, economists say, scrapping earlier calls of as many as two more interest-rate cuts this year....

Earnings forecasts are still holding up share prices despite war's surprises....

ComfortDelGro Corp., Singapore's largest taxi operator, will raise fares temporarily as it moves to shield cabbies from surging fuel costs driven by a global energy shock....

Samsung Electronics Co. is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips, a much longer timeframe than is typical that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage of the essential components....

The Philippines is in discussions with major fertilizer producers including China and Russia to safeguard supply on fears exporters won't deliver on contracts as the Middle East war keeps prices high....

A major storm is strengthening off Australia's northern coast, threatening to bring destructive winds and heavy rains as it heads for landfall in the North Queensland mining region later this week....

Shares of Malaysia's Sunway Healthcare Bhd. jumped nearly 32% in their debut after the company raised 2.86 billion ringgit ($731 million) in the country's largest initial public offering in nine years....

Economists and traders are at odds over whether Australia's central bank will deliver another interest-rate increase in May or wait for the fallout from the Iran war, as a split board weakens conviction for a third consecutive hike....

Invesco's David Chao says "on average it takes around four to five months" for oil prices and stock markets to return back to pre-supply side shock levels. He also tells Bloomberg Television that "we will be watching very closely for any kind of inflationary impulse that developments in the Middle East will have on headline inflation." (Source: Bloomberg)...

The RBI is having to to step in more often of late to support the rupee....

Libya's National Oil Corp. reported a fire after a pipeline leak from the country's largest oil field, according to a statement....

Intensifying regulatory scrutiny is rattling Hong Kong's financial industry and raising the prospects of a slowdown in booming share sales in Asia's premier fundraising hub....

PetroChina Co., the country's biggest natural gas supplier, will keep its contract prices largely unchanged this year to shield industrial consumers from surging global energy prices due to the Middle East conflict....

The $1.8 trillion private credit industry may need years to work through an “intense yet warranted reset” that has caused a wave of redemptions from some of the market's biggest funds, according to Sixth Street Partners....

DayOne Data Centers Ltd. is seeking to double the size of an existing loan to as much as $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the largest borrowing for the sector by any firm in Asia....

Apollo Global Management has made its first dedicated hire for a $1 billion private credit fund aimed at Singapore's high-growth enterprises, people familiar with the matter said, as the city-state seeks to strengthen its foothold in the asset class....

Banco de Brasilia SA canceled an extraordinary shareholder meeting that was to feature a vote on a capital increase of as much as 8.9 billion reais ($1.7 billion) designed to cover a hole left by transactions with failed Banco Master SA....

Malaysia's ringgit rose to the strongest versus the Singapore dollar in five years as higher energy prices support the net energy exporter, which was also propelled by optimism over artificial intelligence....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company has been licensed for “many customers in China” for H200 sales and is in the process of “restarting our manufacturing.” Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Taiwan's life insurers have slashed their holdings of forwards at a record pace after regulatory changes allowed them to spread out the impact of currency fluctuations on their balance sheets....