HKMEx chairman Barry Cheung Chun-yuen told the Sunday Morning Post that the decision to surrender the trading licence and not reopen for business tomorrow would have no impact on investors and...
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HKMEx chairman Barry Cheung Chun-yuen told the Sunday Morning Post that the decision to surrender the trading licence and not reopen for business tomorrow would have no impact on investors and...
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Analyst say the risks are even greater with a new political leadership in Beijing which may be more sensitive to slights. So far, their response has been firm but guarded.
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Givenchy, a unit of French luxury goods giant LVMH, plans to triple its number of stores in China over the next two years as other luxury brands scale back their expansion plans amid an anti-...
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The European Union's top trade official has raised the rhetoric in a brewing telecoms trade row with China, citing Huawei and ZTE for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines, but...
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BYD is a curiosity. The firm gets few breaks in brokerage reports: of the analysts who track the company, 15 have "sell" ratings, six are "neutral", while two are a "buy". Meanwhile, the firm's...
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Signs of a slowing economy combined with comments from a Federal Reserve official helped pull the stock market down Thursday.
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Wealth
There are many good reasons to buy a new, not second-hand, home in China. Every time I talk to property investment expert Chris Dillon I glean something new.
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Italian carmaker Fiat said moving the group’s legal headquarters to the United States is not on the agenda.
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European anti-trust investigators searched the offices of price agency Platts and at least one major oil company for a third day on Thursday, hunting for evidence of possible price manipulation on...
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Commodities
The decline in China's implied oil use in April to an eight-month low, coupled with flat crude imports, gives the impression of weak demand. But the numbers are not telling the whole story.
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John Bond, the chairman of Glencore Xstrata, the world's largest exporter of power-station coal, was deposed by his shareholders yesterday, with the former chief executive of BP, Tony Hayward,...
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Economy
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The credit risks faced by exporters are mounting even as trade data suggests a spike in mainland exports since the beginning of the year. Local manufacturers complain that it is taking much longer...
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Lawyers have urged the securities regulator to continue exploring the potential for a criminal investigation into Cheung Kong's controversial sales of hotel suites in Kwai Chung despite its pact...
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