Beijing raises tariffs on US farm goods, intensifying trade conflict with a focus on soybeans and other key exports.

China considers reinstating coal import controls amid growing oversupply, aiming to balance market demands and maintain energy security.

The variables, L1 to L10, are the portfolios are created from the deciles of the gross and net debt ratio of non-financial firms in Indian and Chinese markets. MKT represents excess return on the market portfolio (S&P BSE 500 index in India and Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite index in China). SMB (small minus big size portfolio), HML (high minus low B/M portfolio), and HLMLL (high minus low leverage portfolio) factor portfolios. SMB, HML, and HLMLL are obtained from 2x2x2 triple sort of the firms in each market. The firms are subject to sequential sorts of size, B/M, and leverage using median of each variable as the divider. From eight portfolio thus obtained, SMB is constructed as the difference in the returns of four small and four big portfolios, and HML and HLMLL are constructed from the difference in the returns of four high and four low B/M and leverage portfolios, respectively. The data on all variables used in the construction of portfolios was obstained from the Bloomberg Professional Databse.

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Data consists of 10 Asian countries, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines plus U.S., total 11 countries. Monthly stock market index and nominal exchange rates (end of the month in local currency terms) are collected from Datastream from January 1990 to December 2013 total 288 monthly observations. Monthly dividend yield is obtained from the Bloomberg for the sample period.