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(Bloomberg) -- Japan's factory production edged up in October, ending a three-month slide and adding to signs that the global supply chain crunch may have been easing before the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Higher output of cars and factory equipment lifted overall production 1.1% from September, the economy ministry reported Tuesday. [Extracted from the article]

Few signs region's central banks are in a hurry to tighten In Japan, the world's petri dish for central bank experiments, the BOJ Thursday kept its monetary stimulus program unchanged even as it pushed back the projected timing for reaching 2 percent inflation for a sixth time. [Extracted from the article]