monetary-easing

China to use tougher environmental standards to tackle capacity glut

China will use the stricter enforcement of environmental, safety and energy efficiency standards as well as tougher credit controls to help fight against overcapacity in key industrial sectors, the government said. The world's second-largest economy has identified overcapacity as one of its key challenges and it has already pledged mass closures in the steel and coal sectors, but it has so far fallen behind on …

Continued here: 
China to use tougher environmental standards to tackle capacity glut

monetary-easing

Negative rates seen reducing Japan big banks’ profits by $2.96 billion: Nikkei

Japan's financial watchdog estimates that negative interest rates under the Bank of Japan's monetary easing policy will reduce profits for the country's three big banks by at least 300 billion yen ($2.96 billion) for the year…

Read more here:
Negative rates seen reducing Japan big banks’ profits by $2.96 billion: Nikkei