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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 ...
Henderson Global Investors has been buying Chinese equities on expectation Europe's debt crisis will prompt China's government to delay further curbs on the country's property industry. The fund manager bought Bank of China Ltd's Hong Kong- listed shares and may purchase Chinese ...
HONG KONG/BEIJING - Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) cleared a preliminary hearing with the Chinese securities regulator in the run-up to its planned $30 billion IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong, local media reported on Wednesday. The bank, whose initial public offering later this ...
SHANGHAI: Mainland stocks fell for the first time in three days on speculation the government will step up measures to avert asset bubbles even as Europe's debt crisis threatens to halt the global recovery. Poly Real Estate Group Co paced declines by developers after the Economic ...
SINGAPORE: China stocks are factoring in both accelerating inflation and declining growth, a "mispricing" that is poised to "correct soon", Morgan Stanley said. The brokerage upgraded steel and building materials shares in its China portfolio to "overweight" from "underweight", a ...
ZURICH - Credit Suisse said on Wednesday it has made eight high-level appointments in fixed income sales and trading for its onshore China business. Switzerland's second-largest bank is likely hoping to bridge some of the gap with competitors after its first-quarter trading ...
BEIJING: Chinese shares rose Thursday with almost all stocks up. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 2.06 percent to close at 2,710.51 points. The Shenzhen Component Index expanded 2.67 percent to 10,417.81 points. Total turnover expanded to 154.06 billion yuan ($22.56 ...
BEIJING - Chinese equities fell on Friday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.53 percent, ending the week with a 4.69 percent drop, the biggest weekly decline this year.The main index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange ended at 2,983.54 points, down 15.95 points, or 0...
SHANGHAI - Allianz SE's China joint venture fund management company has received approval from the Shanghai Stock Exchange to develop an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking Chinese commodities stocks. The ETF will track an index of 50 Chinese stocks with large market capitalizati...
SHANGHAI - China's stocks fell, led by banks and developers, after the official China Securities Journal said deflating the housing bubble is "necessary" and Citigroup Inc forecast prices may drop 20 percent. China Vanke Co, the nation's biggest listed developer, slumped 2.6 ...
TORONTO - Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc Chief Executive Officer Richard Adkerson said there's speculation that copper inventories may increase in China and damp demand for the metal later this year. "The copper market is strongly supported by China," Adkerson said on a ...
China's banking regulator told larger banks to conduct quarterly stress tests on property loans and ensure the risks attached to such lending is strictly controlled after the government tightened credit rules to crack down on real-estate speculation. Financial institutions must ...
China's central bank sold bills at a lower yield for the first time in 15 months, as a crackdown on property lending left the nation's banks with surplus cash. The monetary authority issued 90 billion yuan ($13.2 billion) of three-year securities at a 2.74 percent yield, down ...
BEIJING - Chinese equities slid more than 1 percent Thursday, dragged down by banks and property developers. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange ended at 2,999.48 points, down 33.8 points, or 1.11 percent. The Shenzhen Component Index dropped 0...
Bank of Communications Ltd, China's fourth-largest publicly traded lender, said it made fewer mortgage loans in February and March as it reins in lending and the government seeks to curb property speculation. "We have had an obvious drop in volume over the last two months," Dicky ...
China's stocks rose for the first time in five days as healthcare and consumer companies rallied on the prospect they will benefit from uncertainty over government measures to cool asset bubbles. Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Co added 3.6 percent and retailer Dashang Group Co jumped ...
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 ...
HONG KONG - Datang International Power, the Hong Kong-listed unit of China's State-owned power generator China Datang Corp, on Wednesday denied earlier reports that the company was considering to spin off its coal chemical and new energy businesses and list them on the ChiNext ...
SHANGHAI - China's Ministry of Finance auctioned 28 billion yuan of seven-year bonds in the interbank market on Wednesday at a yield of 3.01 percent, traders said, at the bottom of the forecast range. Market forecasts had centred around 3.04 percent and ranged from 3.00 to 3.07 ...
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic ...
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
The first day of the peace conference in Montreux, was marked by ...
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Three people have reportedly been killed in Ukraine's capital Kiev ...
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Financial reform in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
China's banks must evolve or perish
China's banks must evolve or perish
As China's traditional banks raise interest rates to claw back lost ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi Winter Games
Injured Olympic champion Wang Meng has been ruled out of the 139...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...