(Bloomberg) -- Welcome to Wednesday, Asia. Here's the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your day started:
- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell received a call from President Donald Trump on March 8 as concerns that day about the U.S. job market helped send stocks to their biggest weekly drop of the year
- The global economy is at a “delicate moment” after losing momentum since the start of the year, though a recession isn't likely in the near term, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said
- The World Trade Organization slashed its global trade growth projection for 2019 to the lowest level in three years, citing the impact of rising commercial tensions and tariffs
- The rise in global debt slowed sharply last year, mainly driven by Europe and China, but leverage still remains at historically high levels, according to the Institute of International Finance
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison's government pledged sweeping tax cuts and forecast Australia's first surplus in more than a decade in a budget aimed at engineering a come-from-behind election victory
- And further Down Under, New Zealand posted the slowest house-price inflation in more than seven years in March
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