Financial Markets

7 Nov 2012

Will the upcoming 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China affect Chinese stock market investors? Don’t hold your breath.

Hyenas play a vital role in financial markets, too

18 Sep 2012

There are many animals that people find repulsive which actually play a vital role in sustaining their ecosystems.

China markets poised for recovery if US initiates third liquidity injection

6 Sep 2012

Mainland markets are bottoming out and poised to be awash with fresh capital if a third round of quantitative easing by the US Federal Reserve be

New world order: biological science links patterns of economic behaviour

21 Jul 2012

The summer heatwave in the US corn belt is going to hit grain production and has already raised food prices. So far, such price increases have not yet translated to global inflation, thanks to...

Banks nudge down yuan interest rates

16 Jun 2012

Hong Kong banks began lowering yuan interest rates yesterday, after liquidity rose on the back of new measures introduced by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the de facto central bank....

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

How a bank's hedge became a US$2b loss, and why it can happen again

While everyone in the East has been mesmerised by the Bo Xilai mystery, another enigma has been unravelling out West, involving a London whale. JPMorgan Chase this month announced trading losses...

Taking orders on mobiles to be banned

Brokers and bank staff will be banned from using their mobile phones to take client orders from December 1 as part of a new code of conduct imposed by the securities watchdog to enhance investor...

'No conflict' with London exchange

While Singapore's attempt at the first exchange-backed dark pool came to naught, the London Stock Exchange has proved traditional bourses and dark pools can indeed work together.

Filling a niche away from the public glare

Traditional exchange operators complain dark pools lack transparency but it is precisely this ability to keep trades away from the glare of the public eye that makes them so popular with many...

CSRC pushes for bank loans to brokerages

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has proposed allowing brokerages to raise loans from commercial banks - a move aimed at helping them expand their services to tap the rising...

Gloom for manoeuvre

The good news for investors is that the mainland registered its slowest economic expansion for three years with first quarter gross domestic product growth coming in at 8.1 per cent.