(Bloomberg) -- Welcome to Thursday, Asia. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your day started:
Fed officials are weighing competing forces in the economy: resilience of the consumer versus the fallout from uncertainty around trade disputes and weaker global growth Indeed, there’s a lot of weight on the shoulders of shoppers around the world, and the strain is starting to showWhat I meant when I said ‘don’t enable Trump,’ by Bill DudleyBritish PM Boris Johnson’s premiership was thrown into crisis after Parliament dealt a triple blow to his radical plan for breaking away from the EUAs global central banks swing back into easing mode, old tools long frowned upon by monetary purists are being embraced to ensure cash goes where it’s neededChina’s cabinet signaled that a reduction in the amount of funds banks have to hold in reserve is on the way, in a move aimed at releasing cash into the slowing economyThe withdrawal of the Extradition Bill that sparked months of civil unrest in Hong Kong raises some hope for its economy, but any recovery will be a long haul, writes Qian WanECB presidential nominee Christine Lagarde pledged to act with “agility” against inflation that is persistently too low If Italian PM-designate Giuseppe Conte wanted to prove his government is one Europe can now do business with, his choice of finance minister might be exhibit AIndia’s government is increasingly relying on one-time revenue measures to plug its budget gap, raising questions about how it will finance spending pledges further outArgentina’s escalating financial crisis is prompting economists to replace forecasts for a rebound in growth in 2020 with predictions of a third year of contractionThe economic fallout of President Donald Trump’s trade war is becoming easier to see. The endgame -- not so much, writes Bryce Baschuk in the latest Terms of Trade