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NEW YORK - Oil jumped more than 3 percent to $47 a barrel on Monday as a naval incident between the United States and China, the world's top oil consumers, boosted geopolitical tensions and as dealers pondered the possibility of deeper production cuts by OPEC. The U.S. State ...
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 companies. ...
Strategic investors have made a rush for China Everbright Bank's initial public offering shares, leading to a huge oversubscription and signaling strong demand for its potentially US$2.9 billion float and other offerings in the pipeline as stock markets recover. Thirty key ...
NEW YORK - U.S. crude oil stocks rose last week as imports increased and demand from refiners fell, while gasoline posted a big decline as demand rose, Energy Information Administration weekly data showed on Wednesday. Total commercial crude oil inventories gained 700,000 barrels ...
GF Securities Co plans to raise as much as 18 billion yuan (US$2.66 billion) in a private share placement to replenish working capital and expand its core businesses. The medium-sized brokerage will sell up to 600 million additional shares to at most 10 investors at more than 27...
The recent rebound of the A-share market is likely to help revive China's securities brokerage industry, which performed poorly in the first half of the year. With investors getting excited about a stock market recovery, securities firms - particularly smaller and regional ...
The insurance regulator might loosen the restrictions for insurers to invest in infrastructure projects, which could diversify the insurers' portfolios and give more funds to support public works. The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) will discuss to lower the ...
ZUG, Switzerland - The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland are an unlikely setting for an oil boom. Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland -- mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile that looks ...
NEW ORLEANS - Investment bankers may dream of tie-ups between large independent oil and gas companies, but executives who could possibly do such a deal say they are not in the market. On Monday, Canadian companies Suncor Energy Inc and Petro-Canada announced a $15 billion stock ...
SINGAPORE - A drop in U.S. crude oil implied volatility to its lowest since the financial crisis reached fever pitch last October may suggest that oil traders are beginning to see $50 as a possible point of equilibrium. And while historical volatility has also fallen from its ...
BNY Mellon Western Fund Management Co, an equity fund venture jointly set up by the world's largest custody lender - Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY Mellon) and China's Western Securities, officially began operations on Monday, and plans to launch its first fund product as ...
Development of Chinese private equity (PE) funds has topped the list in Asia in terms of scale and speed of introduction to the market, said Liu Lefei, rotating chairman of Beijing Private Equity Association. Liu, also chairman and chief executive of Citic Private Equity Funds ...
TORONTO, April 27 - Toronto's main stock index fell 1.6 percent on Monday, breaking a four-session rally, as fears of an international swine flu outbreak rattled commodity prices, dampening hopes for an economic recovery. Resource-related issues, which make up about 40 percent of ...
Riding on the sizzling performance of China's Growth Enterprise Board (GEB), yuan-denominated funds further consolidated their strength in the domestic venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) markets outdoing their US dollar counterparts in the first 11 months of 2010. Among ...
LONDON, June 11 - European gasoline prices topped $730 a tonne on Thursday, for the first time since October, due to low stocks in Europe and the United States and an expected rise in demand. Traders said supplies in Europe were tight due to recent exports to West Africa and ...
Shares of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), which successfully claimed the title of the world's largest initial public offering (IPO), will face a major test in the market in the coming week after it exercised the over-allotment option to help limit price volatility. By fully ...
CALGARY, Alberta, June 21 - A lot of oil analysts say crude prices around $70 a barrel are too steep, given the tenuous state of the economy, and energy investors don't seem to want to argue yet. By and large, Canadian energy share values reflect an oil price somewhat lower than ...
SAO PAULO, July 15 - Brazilian stocks surged on Wednesday as strong economic data and corporate earnings in the United States lifted investor hopes that a global economic recovery was on the way. The Bovespa index .BVSP of the Sao Paulo stock exchange rose 4.96 percent to close ...
China's securities regulator plans to set rules that brokerage trading commissions should not fall short of business cost, the China Securities Journal reported on Thursday, citing unidentified sources. The Securities Association of China is now seeking opinions on the draft ...
Central Huijin Investment Ltd., an arm of China's sovereign wealth fund, has finished the first round of increasing stake in China Construction Bank (CCB) and it intended to continue increasing its CCB shareholdings, said the bank on Tuesday. In a statement filed with the Hong ...
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