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China's stock-index futures will allow investors to hedge risks from potential asset bubbles and make equities cheaper in the long-term, according to Macquarie Group Ltd, Australia's largest investment bank. Futures trading, which starts today, is part of China's push to provide ...
China's launch of trading in stock index futures on Friday will mark a milestone in making its financial markets more professional and less speculative, even though they are likely to get off to a slow start. By making it possible for investors to short the market or bet on a ...
SHANGHAI - The Shanghai-based China Financial Futures Exchange will launch the country's first stock index futures on April 16. The Shanghai Stock Exchange is the world's fifth-largest bourse, with a market capitalisation of $2.6 trillion and average daily turnover of about 100 ...
SHANGHAI: China's stock-index futures will begin trading on Friday at the "expensive side of fair value" as volumes will be limited, Goldman Sachs Group Inc said. "Under close monitoring by authorities, we expect a gradual increase in liquidity, but even then we do not expect a ...
BEIJING - Small-cap shares on the A-share market suffered their biggest loss in three months on Tuesday in volatile trade as profit-taking by investors led to capital outflows. Eight companies listed on the ChiNext start-up board fell to their 10-percent daily trading limits. ...
China's stock market decline shouldn't be blamed on index futures, China Securities Journal cited Wang Lianzhou, former deputy director of National People's Congress' financial and economic committee, as saying. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index entered a bear market last ...
BEIJING - The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the country's largest rural lender, and Sinofert Holdings Ltd signed a strategic cooperation agreement here Friday to boost collaboration in agro-related businesses. ABC and Sinofert, China's largest fertilizer company, agreed to ...
An official with China's pension fund said that the fund had invested 15 billion yuan ($2.20 billion) into the Agricultural Bank of China, ahead of the bank's $30 billion IPO. ABC, the smallest of the country's Big Four banks, plans to list in Hong Kong and Shanghai by July, ...
BEIJING: Several Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds are holding talks with the Agricultural Bank of China about investing in its initial public offering (IPO) in Shanghai and Hong Kong this year, the China Business News reported Monday. The Kuwait Investment Authority intends ...
Bank of China, the country's No 3 lender by assets, wants to issue convertible bonds as soon as it can, it said on Thursday, as part of a broader effort by Chinese banks to raise funds to replenish their coffers after a lending spree in 2009. The bank also hopes to complete its ...
BEIJING - The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) will loosen the limits on investments by insurance companies in stocks and bonds, but may be cautious on permitting property investments, a CIRC official said on Wednesday. "We are in discussions to allow major insurers ...
China will raise the range and threshold of insurance companies' capital investment in A and H shares and unsecured bonds, the Shanghai Securities News reported Wednesday, citing news from an insurance watchdog meeting with top executives from insurers and insurance assets ...
HONG KONG - US financial holding company JPMorgan Chase and Co had acquired 3.394 million shares of the HK- listed Yanzhou Coal for HK$57.94 million ($7.43 million) and increased its stake to 11.13 percent, according to data released on late Tuesday by the Hong Kong stock ...
HONG KONG - The Chinese bank ICBC, the world's largest bank by market value, said Wednesday that it had obtained all the necessary governmental and regulatory approvals to complete the acquisition of all issued shares of Thailand's ACL Bank. In a statement filed to Hong Kong ...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc is recommending a basket of four Chinese companies whose yuan- denominated shares are more attractively valued than their Hong Kong stocks. China Merchants Bank Co, Angang Steel Co, China Life Insurance Co and Ping An Insurance (Group) Co are the four ...
HONG KONG: China Construction Bank, one of the country's four State-owned major banks, said Thursday it aimed to raise 75 billion yuan ($11 billion) through a rights issue. In a statement filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange, the Beijing-based bank said the rights issue would ...
BEIJING: Yuan forwards fell on concern the eurozone's deepening debt crisis may derail the global economic recovery and prompt China to delay appreciation of its currency. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday cut Greece's credit rating by three notches to junk, the first ...
The ChiNext stock market was down Wednesday as only 23 of the 75 stocks at China's start-up board for small and medium-sized enterprises rose, while other three stocks were suspended from trading. The board, which is based in Shenzhen and started trading on Oct 30, 2009, is ...
SHANGHAI: China's crackdown on the real estate market may trigger an estimated 400 billion yuan ($58.6 billion) to flow out of property and into equities, according to the nation's largest brokerage. The funds may be diverted into consumer-related stocks with small capitalization...
BEIJING - In the latest salvo aimed at its property market, China is getting ready to launch a real estate investment tool that will give investors an alternative to bricks and mortar, and move to cool a market where prices have risen at the fastest pace in five years. Real ...
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