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CIC move seen as 'sidestepping' investment restrictions BEIJING - Chinese author-ities are considering a plan to strip China Investment Corporation (CIC) of all its domestic banking stakes, a move expected to help diversify the portfolio of one of the world's major sovereign ...
SHANGHAI: Mainland stocks declined, driving the benchmark index to a 15-month low, on concern a slowdown in the world's third-largest economy and fundraising by banks will dent profits and hurt existing shareholders' stakes. The Shanghai Composite Index retreated 18.95, or 0.8 ...
Bank of China said its bid to raise up to $8.86 billion should give it sufficient capital for the next three years, seeking to ease investor concerns about finances at China's No 4 lender. The bank said late on Friday it planned to raise up to 60 billion yuan ($8.86 billion) ...
Bank of China Ltd, Asia's third- largest lender by market value, plans to raise as much as 60 billion yuan ($8.9 billion) in a rights offer to replenish capital. The lender will sell 1.1 shares for every 10 held, or as many as 19.56 billion shares in Shanghai and 8.36 billion in ...
China's international board will be yuan-dominated, but there is no date set yet for its launch, the Shanghai Securities News reported. It depends on the technological preparation from the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and on rules and regulations designed by the China Securities ...
BEIJING - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc, the owner of the second-largest US stock exchange, is likely to have its best year ever in terms of the number of new listings from China if the market continues to perform well, said Eric D. Landheer, the bourse's Asia-Pacific head, on Thursday. ...
BEIJING - China's insurance regulator issued detailed rules on Thursday governing how insurers invest their profits, which reiterated the ban on direct investment in property development and specified the ratio of funds that insurers could invest in new sectors such as unlisted ...
China will let more banks import and export gold and open trading further to foreign companies as near-record prices and falling stock markets spur demand in the world's second-largest buyer of the metal. Gold prices gained. China may "increase foreign members on the Shanghai ...
Move to protect confidentiality and ensure investors treated fairly BEIJING - The State Council, China's Cabinet, on Thursday ordered further measures in its crackdown on stock market insider trading. The measures include ensuring confidentiality of non-public information about ...
China plans to allow small-and medium-sized companies to issue bonds in private placements next year to help them raise funds, Reuters reported on Dec 7, citing the Securities Times. The government will soon launch a trial of the program, the paper said, citing information from ...
SHANGHAI - Chinese mainland stocks rose for a second day as improving global economic data and speculation that Europe's debt crisis will be contained bolstered the outlook for the nation's exports. PetroChina Co and Jiangxi Copper Co led commodity stocks higher as crude and ...
BEIJING - China's stocks closed higher Thursday, trailing rally of the US stock market overnight on improved economic data. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.71 percent, or 20.16 points, to close at 2,843.61. The Shenzhen Component Index added 0.80 percent, or 98.64 ...
China should channel its high level of savings from banks to the stock market in order to avoid risks to the financial system and further develop the capital markets, Bloomberg reported on Dec 2, citing the central bank adviser Li Daokui. Li's concerns about the nation's rising ...
Bank of China, the country's fourth-largest lender by assets, said on Friday it plans to raise up to 60 billion yuan ($9 billion) through a rights issue in Shanghai and Hong Kong to replenish capital, Reuters reported. Bank of China will sell one share for every 10 existing ...
BEIJING - Rising interest in the silver screen in China has encouraged major media companies to embark on a big drive to build more cinemas. The film industry boom has been fueled by the improved living standards enjoyed by many urban residents, with box office receipts in China ...
China's economy slowed in the second quarter as the government steered monetary and fiscal policy back to normal after a record credit surge last year to counter the global crisis. Annual gross domestic product growth moderated to 10.3 percent from 11.9 percent in the first ...
SHANGHAI - Banks in China's first-tier cities, including Shanghai and Shenzhen, have all resumed lending to third homes, the Securities Times reported on Monday. Banks in cities near Shanghai, such as Nanjing and Hangzhou, have also resumed such mortgage loans, the newspaper said...
A Chinese consumer confidence index rose in the second quarter. The measure increased to 109 from 108 in the previous three months, according to a statement released by Nielsen Co and the Chinese statistics bureau's Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center in Beijing on Thursday. ...
Beijing - China's machinery industry has rebounded during the first half of this year, but the momentum is likely to slow as the country's economy cools. The machinery industry has grown by 37 percent during the first six months of 2010, with a total output value of 6.59 trillion ...
BEIJING: Chinese inflation will peak this summer, a respected economist said, as a top planning official pinpointed decreased land supply and the rising cost of agricultural labor as driving strong prices of Chinese agricultural commodities. Ha Jiming, chief economist at China ...
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