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China mulls trading cost cuts for mutual funds, to regulate commissions

10 Dec 2023 - 3:40PM

China’s securities regulator has published draft rules aimed at slashing trading commissions for mutual funds and addressing the conflict of interest between the securities trading and fund sales businesses of brokerages, the latest reform to the US$3.8 trillion mutual fund industry.

A view of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) office building located at Beijing’s Financial Street in downtown Beijing, China. Photo: Simon Song

China mulls trading cost cuts for mutual funds, to regulate commissions

China’s securities regulator has published draft rules aimed at slashing trading commissions for mutual funds and addressing the conflict of interest between the securities trading and fund sales businesses of brokerages, the latest reform to the US$3.8 trillion mutual fund industry.

10 Dec 2023 - 3:40PM

AI boom, China’s waning recovery to boost SOE, tech stocks rally: brokerages

A rally in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and technology stocks is likely to get a further boost in the second half of the year as investors seek shelter from a weak economic recovery, according to the midyear strategy reports of some brokerages.

16 May 2023 - 3:41PM

US lawmakers push SEC to order audit of Shein IPO over Uygur forced labour fears

A group of US representatives is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to halt the initial public offering of Chinese-founded fast-fashion giant Shein until it verifies it does not use forced labour while the company says it has “zero tolerance” for such practices.

2 May 2023 - 10:40AM
A worker producing electronic components at a factory in Suqian, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

AI boom, China’s waning recovery to boost SOE, tech stocks rally: brokerages

A rally in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and technology stocks is likely to get a further boost in the second half of the year as investors seek shelter from a weak economic recovery, according to the midyear strategy reports of some brokerages.

16 May 2023 - 3:41PM
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US lawmakers push SEC to order audit of Shein IPO over Uygur forced labour fears

A group of US representatives is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to halt the initial public offering of Chinese-founded fast-fashion giant Shein until it verifies it does not use forced labour while the company says it has “zero tolerance” for such practices.

A group of US representatives is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to halt the initial public offering of Chinese-founded fast-fashion giant Shein until it verifies it does not use forced labour while the company says it has “zero tolerance” for such practices.

2 May 2023 - 10:40AM
China stock market

Traders bet on cold medicine, antigen test makers as China ditches zero-Covid

They are betting demand for these products will spike as China allows people to isolate at home and drops requirements for nucleic acid testing to encourage use of antigen test kits.

They are betting demand for these products will spike as China allows people to isolate at home and drops requirements for nucleic acid testing to encourage use of antigen test kits.

9 Dec 2022 - 3:26PM

BYD plunges after Buffett’s Berkshire cuts stake in China’s top EV maker

BYD plunges in Hong Kong trading after a filing shows Berkshire Hathaway trimmed its stake in the EV maker by about US$47 million.

31 Aug 2022 - 4:29PM
BYD plunges after Buffett’s Berkshire cuts stake in China’s top EV maker

US-China audit deal to delay migration benefits for HKEX: Morgan Stanley

Hong Kong’s bourse operator may have to wait longer to extract the benefits of more IPOs and trading volume as the US-China audit deal could allow Chinese companies to keep their New York listing status.

30 Aug 2022 - 6:02PM
US-China audit deal to delay migration benefits for HKEX: Morgan Stanley

Traders bet on cold medicine, antigen test makers as China ditches zero-Covid

They are betting demand for these products will spike as China allows people to isolate at home and drops requirements for nucleic acid testing to encourage use of antigen test kits.

9 Dec 2022 - 3:26PM

BYD plunges after Buffett’s Berkshire cuts stake in China’s top EV maker

BYD plunges in Hong Kong trading after a filing shows Berkshire Hathaway trimmed its stake in the EV maker by about US$47 million.

31 Aug 2022 - 4:29PM

US-China audit deal to delay migration benefits for HKEX: Morgan Stanley

Hong Kong’s bourse operator may have to wait longer to extract the benefits of more IPOs and trading volume as the US-China audit deal could allow Chinese companies to keep their New York listing status.

30 Aug 2022 - 6:02PM
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Macroscope | Global markets are sleepwalking toward a cliff’s edge. Here’s why

The world’s financial markets are obeying the herd instinct ever more strongly – and could be herding toward a cliff’s edge

14 Apr 2019 - 10:10PM

Inside Out | The IPO plan of China’s Big Tobacco is a sad display of cynicism

If anyone truly cared for the health of China’s people, tobacco would be an industry long gone. The fact that we see plans for the monopoly to raise funds in Hong Kong speaks cynical volumes instead.

If anyone truly cared for the health of China’s people, tobacco would be an industry long gone. The fact that we see plans for the monopoly to raise funds in Hong Kong speaks cynical volumes instead.

13 Jan 2019 - 7:57PM
The IPO plan of China’s Big Tobacco is a sad display of cynicism

Macroscope | Whose economy is in the stronger state to survive the trade war?

China may scale back the rhetoric of its global ambitions, recognising that discretion can be the better part of valour in a long-term game. Likewise, Trump may be less confrontational, now that the soft underbelly of the US economy has been exposed

China may scale back the rhetoric of its global ambitions, recognising that discretion can be the better part of valour in a long-term game. Likewise, Trump may be less confrontational, now that the soft underbelly of the US economy has been exposed

16 Dec 2018 - 7:50PM
Whose economy is in the stronger state to survive the trade war?

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