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BEIJING: Price surge in some agricultural products such as garlic and mung beans would have a limited impact on China's overall inflation, said Peng Sen, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the national economic planner. The consumer price ...
BEIJING - Speculation on food products like mung beans is unlikely to sharply push up China's Consumer Price Index (CPI), an important gauge for inflation, analysts have said. The rising food prices earlier this year were mainly because of bad weather not speculation, said Yao ...
Initial public offerings (IPOs) in emerging nations are returning about 15 times more than IPOs in developed countries even as companies from China to Brazil flood the market with more shares than ever. Listings by Longfor Properties Co, Banco Santander (Brasil) SA and Kuala ...
Political and economic leaders from China and the European Union (EU) appealed in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province on Sunday that countries should not take an "early withdraw" from their economic stimulus packages since they are still needed to maintain the ...
BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged here Monday to continue reform of the country's financial system and develop the capital market. "China's financial system is generally sound. It was not greatly affected by the financial crisis and indeed helped the Chinese economy to ...
CHICAGO - Derivative transaction will become an important part of China's financial market in the future, said a financial expert on Thursday in Chicago. Eugene Zheng, Managing Director of Asia Affairs at Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), made the statement during his speech ...
Tough property measures will 'benefit economy in long term' BEIJING - The booming property market suddenly cooled down in April - in home sales, at least - after a range of government measures aimed at curbing runaway prices. However, the measures are also fueling concerns that ...
BEIJING - China will not launch taxes on holdings of more than one residential apartment for at least another three years, a government think tank official has said. Meanwhile, many economists continue to warn that the country's economy could slow down amidst property tightening ...
BANGKOK - A United Nations report released Thursday said that China will gain an economic growth of 9.5 percent in 2010. The report titled "Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2010", an annual publication of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for ...
SHANGHAI - China may let Hong Kong subsidiaries of domestic brokerages and fund managers facilitate investments of offshore yuan deposits back into mainland capital markets in a pilot scheme as soon as this year, local media said on Thursday. Under the scheme, dubbed "mini-QFII", ...
SYDNEY - Jeremy Grantham, who correctly predicted US stocks would lose money in the past decade, said China's "experimental" approach to reining in asset bubbles may help it avoid a US-style housing market crash. China's lawmakers have raised down payment requirements and ...
Chinese mainland's pension fund plans to increase overseas investments in stocks and bonds, including securities in Taiwan, to boost returns as global markets recover from the financial crisis. The fund also aims to buy stakes in unlisted companies outside the mainland, including ...
BEIJING - China on Wednesday said it would continue to strengthen investigations of cases involving speculative money inflows and punish offenders, as analysts said such an influx could resurface in the second half of this year. The government will "handle properly the investigat...
BEIJING - China's insurance industry is facing investment pressure as regulations stipulate that an estimated 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) from new premium income needs to be invested this year, even as traditional channels are languishing. The country's insurance sector had 4...
SHANGHAI - Shanghai is poised to make its Suzhou River the Chinese counterpart of the Hudson in New York, planning to send luxury yachts cruising on the inland waterway in the hope of transforming it into a calling card for the city compatible with its future status as a global ...
China says more prudent monetary policy will be needed next year BEIJING - China pledged on Friday to tighten its monetary policy next year, shifting from its "moderately loose" stance to a more prudent one as the central government steps up efforts to tame rising inflation and ...
NEW YORK - Financial expert Jim Rogers said on Tuesday that China's central bank was doing the right thing by raising interest rate to curb inflation in China right now. "As we may all know that China is facing serious inflation problems. However, the central bank of China is ...
BEIJING - The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) has vowed to accelerate the listing of group companies of central government-invested State-owned enterprises (SOEs). The move is part of an effort to institute a stockholding ...
BEIJING - Despite generally downbeat market predictions for 2011, some analysts, such as Henry Wu, head of China equity research at Nomura Securities, are bucking the trend by predicting a rebound, expecting a boost from undervalued banking and property shares despite inflationar...
SHANGHAI - New China Life, the Chinese joint venture of Swiss insurer Zurich, is aiming for a dual-listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong this year, the official Shanghai Securities News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources. The listings will likely happen in the third ...
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