For Marcus Wong's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Fresh COVID-19 outbreaks — and the government’s stringent policy to contain them — are spooking global investors who fear shutdowns in China will echo across the world.
Japan’s five-year yields have advanced to the highest level since the Bank of Japan introduced its negative interest rate policy in January 2016.
The region is also threatened by concern over slowing growth in China and the prospect that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates sooner than earlier anticipated.
