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Shanghai will encourage its city-owned financial companies to list to help raise funds to boost their capital. Examples of Shanghai-based financial institutions preparing to list include Bank of Shanghai, Orient Securities, Guotai Jun'an Securities and Shanghai Rural Commercial ...
Chinese shares opened lower Wednesday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.37 percent to 2,844.99. The Shenzhen Component Index opened 0.29 percent lower to 12,436.63. Chinese shares tumbled 2.62 pct on the previous trading day due to the tensions in the Middle East ...
Chinese shares opened slightly lower Thursday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.04 percent to 2,861.39. The Shenzhen Component Index opened 0.13 percent lower to 12,476.04. Chinese shares crept 0.25 percent higher Wednesday after international gold prices ...
U.S. crude oil price briefly crossed 100 dollars a barrel on Wednesday, hitting the triple digits for the first time since October 2008, as violence spreading in Libya caused anxiety in oil markets. On Wednesday, heavy gunfire broke out in Libya's capital city Tripoli, causing ...
The value of Chinese currency, the yuan, weakened against U.S. dollars Wednesday. The central parity rate was set at 6.5828 per U.S. dollar, compared with 6.5772 yuan per U.S. dollar on Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading system. China's central bank ...
The U.S. dollar traded mixed against major currencies in late New York trading on Tuesday as the unrest in Libya continued and a European Central Bank (ECB) official warned of interest rate hike in euro zone. The protests in Libya might escalate as its leader Moammar Gadhafi ...
Traders work in the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange on February 22, 2011 in New York City. Oil prices leapt five percent today as the unrest in Libya has sparked fears that Middle Eastern turmoil could affect oil production. Oil topped as high as $98 a ...
Chinese shares tumbled Tuesday due to the tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as inflation concerns with soaring oil prices pushed up by the unrest. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 76.73 points, or 2.62 percent, to 2,855.52. The Shenzhen Component ...
Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday topped the psychological mark of 1,400 dollars per ounce, buoyed up by safe- haven demands amid growing violence and protests in the Middle East. The most active gold contract for February delivery ...
Chinese shares opened slightly higher Tuesday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.31 percent to 2,941.32. The Shenzhen Component Index was 0.35 percent higher to reach 12,917.36.
Chinese shares closed higher Monday, despite last week's announcement by the central bank that it would further hike the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for commercial banks on Thursday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed up 32.45 points, or 1.12 percent, to end at 2...
Chinese shares closed slightly higher in the morning session Monday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.12 percent to 2,903.38. The Shenzhen Component Index rose 0.59 percent to 12,687.77.
The value of China's currency, the yuan, hit a record high for the fifth straight trading day Monday with the central parity rate at 6.5705 yuan per U.S. dollar, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading system. The central parity rate of the yuan, or RMB, was 76 basis ...
Playing the gyrating mainland stock markets was a game of nerves last year for individual investors, eaving many disappointed with their returns. The Shanghai Composite Index ranked as the world's third worst performing market in 2010, with a drop of 4.3 percent. In January, ...
The gold price in Hong Kong went up 58 HK dollars to open at 12,915 HK dollars per tael on Monday, according to the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society. The price is equivalent to 1,393.46 U.S. dollars a troy ounce, up 7.33 U.S. dollars at the latest exchange rate of one U.S...
Chinese shares opened lower Monday, the first trading day following the central bank's announcement Friday to further hike reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for commercial banks. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index opened 0.46 percent lower at 2,886.54. The Shenzhen Component ...
For the past two decades, initial public offerings on the Chinese mainland were the darlings of retail investors as new listings usually skyrocketed on their market debuts, helping successful subscribers easily reap hefty gains. The strong first-day performances came even amid ...
Asian stocks rebounded last week after US and Japanese central banks raised their growth outlooks and companies posted better-than-estimated earnings, boosting confidence in the global recovery. Toshiba Corp and Elpida Memory Inc rallied more than 3 percent in Tokyo after Dell ...
Stocks on the Chinese mainland fell for the first time in seven days, dragging the benchmark index from a two-month high. The decline came on concern that monetary tightening will hurt growth and after a leading economic index dropped for the first time since 2008. Anhui ...
China's stock index futures closed lower Friday with the contract for March, the most actively traded, down 0.93 percent from the previous trading day to end at 3,231.4 points. The February contract fell 0.72 percent to close at 3,214.4 points. The June contract was down 0.98 ...
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