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The Chinese currency Renminbi, or the yuan, continued to strengthen 28 basis points to 6.4921 per U.S. dollar on Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading system. The yuan hit an all-time high on May 11 when the central parity rate was set at 6.4848 per U.S. ...
China Chinese shares fell for the sixth consecutive trading day on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.19 percent, or 5.21 points, to 2,736.53. The Shenzhen Component Index dropped 0.73 percent, or 84.72 points, to close at 11,530.7. Hong Kong stocks ...
U.S. stocks rebounded on Wednesday, with energy shares taking the lead, after oil prices settled above 100 dollars a barrel. After gaining nearly 2 percent in the previous session, oil maintained its momentum and jumped above 100 dollar a barrel on Wednesday, giving energy stocks ...
Chinese shares fell for the fifth consecutive trading day on Wednesday, dragging the key Shanghai index to its lowest level since January 28 this year, as investors are concerned about a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ...
Shanghai will encourage the time-honored Laozihao brands to list, adopt franchising and e-shopping as well as use modern techniques to revive themselves in order to grow, officials at the Shanghai Commission of Commerce said yesterday. Shanghai is home to 180 certified Chinese ...
Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once famously said, "To get rich is glorious." Of course, that was back in the days when China was moving from a backward, controlled economy to a market economy and his words were meant to instill self-motivation and remind everyone of the ...
China Chinese shares fell for the fifth consecutive trading day on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.91 percent, or 25.32 points, to 2,741.74. The Shenzhen Component Index dropped 1.14 percent, or 134.51 points, to close at 11,615.42. Hong Kong stocks ...
China Chinese stocks closed mixed on Tuesday with cement producers rising across the board. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.27 percent, or 7.51 points, to 2,767.06, after tumbling nearly 3 percent to a 16-week low on Monday. The Shenzhen Component Index rose 0.07 ...
Cloudary Corp, a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Shanda Interactive Entertainment, said Tuesday in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it aims to raise up to $200 million with an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The filing did not ...
QFII granted to private bank for first time QFII Swiss-based private banking group Julius Baer announced it had been granted a Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) quota of US$100-million by China's foreign exchange regulator. Julius Baer was granted the QFII license ...
MOSCOW -- Chinese companies can find rich investment opportunities in Russia through its planned direct investment fund and a new round of privatization, says China Investment Corporation chairman Lou Jiwei. Lou, who was invited to attend an international investment seminar, told ...
China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) administered by the central government, or the central SOEs, posted a net profit increase of 18.2 percent year-on-year in the first four months. The pace of increase was 4.2 percentage points lower compared with that in the first quarter. ...
GAMING REVENUE SKYROCKETING Macao, the only place in China where gambling is legal, saw spiraling growth of the gaming industry after opening up the century-old sector to foreign competition in 2002. In 2010, the city raked in 23.5 billion U.S. dollars in gambling revenue, about ...
MACAO -- MGM China Holdings Ltd, a Macao casino joint venture between US-based MGM Resorts International and the daughter of gaming tycoon Stanley Ho, started Monday the process of retail book building for its initial public offering (IPO), days after Macao's another major casino ...
The Chinese currency Renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 15 basis points to 6.4998 per U.S. dollar on Monday, snapping the streak of appreciation for three consecutive trading days, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading system. It hit a new high of 6.4948 per U.S. dollar on ...
The Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE), China's biggest commodities market, is expected to launch silver futures by the end of this year, the head of the SHFE said Saturday. The statement was made by Yang Maijun, general manager of the SHFE, on the sidelines of the Lujiazui Forum ...
China is actively pushing forward an international board at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, senior officials and regulators told the Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai yesterday. "I want to tell you all that the international board is coming closer and closer to us," said Shang Fulin, ...
A senior economist has said China could achieve full convertibility of the yuan in three to five years - much sooner than previous forecasts. Xiang Songzuo, deputy director of the International Monetary Institute with Renmin University of China, told China Daily on Friday that ...
China is mulling policies to allow foreign institutions to invest directly in renminbi in China, China Business News reported on Friday. Li Bo, director of the Monetary Policy Bureau at the People's Bank of China, was quoted at a financial forum in Shanghai Thursday. Li didn't ...
BEIJING -- Total assets of China's social security fund increased nearly tenfold over the past 10 years, as the government strives to keep high investment returns amid the country's high inflation. The fund's total assets rose to 856.69 billion yuan ($131.7 billion) in 2010, up ...
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