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Across The Border | Yuan weakness prompts Chinese investors to place risky bets on digital currency bitcoin

Celia Chen
Celia Chen

Opinion | Wind power propelling China into cleaner energy era

Sarah Zheng
Sarah Zheng

Opinion | Tech firms line up to ride the online video wave

Sarah Zheng
Sarah Zheng

Opinion | Geely’s August sales accelerate 69pc as popularity of SUVs continues in China

Julia Hollingsworth
Julia Hollingsworth

Opinion | China’s action on corporate costs shows commitment to reform

Celia Chen
Celia Chen

Opinion | UBS report highlights series of concerns over Chinese economy

Celia Chen
Celia Chen

Opinion | S&P warns China’s corporate credit levels expected to climb

Celia Chen
Celia Chen

Opinion | Deutsche Bank highlights equipment manufacture and supply as keys to China’s IM future

Celia Chen
Celia Chen

Opinion | Chinese banks look ahead to easing of credit card market

Celia Chen
Celia Chen

Chinese online brokerages eye bitcoin trading services offshore

The Nasdaq-listed brokers are competing for a growing pool of young and mobile traders outside mainland China, Photo: Reuters
  • Beijing-based Tiger Brokers and Shenzhen-based Futu have unveiled plans to expand into digital currency trading
  • Targeting only offshore clients, the move has come amid Beijing’s renewed crackdown on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
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Yoghurt beverages, acquisitions and new consumers to fuel rebound at Mengniu Dairy

Analysis | Transport, property stocks to gain from Big Bay Area plan

The Big Bay Area, which encompasses Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macau, will have a combined population of 100 million, with a 2016 economic output of US$1.36 trillion, ranking it as one of the world’s largest bay-area economies
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HK dollar to hit weakest level as Fed shrinks balance sheet

Higher Hong Kong dollar rates could lead to increased households debt, rising mortgage repayments, lower incomes and put downward pressure on consumption. Photo: AFP

NPL-backed securities sell off to quicken this year

Some 16.33 billion yuan (US$2.36 billion) worth of securities backed by non-performing loans were issued by Chinese banks between May last year and the end of March this year. Photo: AFP

Risks rising for China’s city commercial banks

Fitch analysts Katie Chen and Grace Wu said city commercial banks’ “rising systemic importance implies any excessive risk build-up in this sector could lead to higher overall systemic risk”. Photo: Reuters

More financial services jobs become available this year

Citibank in Central. Citibank is a major brand name under the Citigroup, a preeminent global financial services company that provides some 120 million consumers, corporations, governments and institutions in more than 100 countries with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, insurance, securities brokerage and asset management.

Gold prices may get a boost from political uncertainty, StanChart says

Bonds seen as another financing tool for China’s PPP: Moody’s

The Chishi Bridge in Yizhang County of Chenzhou City, central China's Hunan Province. PPPs are seen as a means of broadening the financing options available to regional and local governments for future infrastructure development, by introducing private investors. Photo: Xinhua

Grocery shopping to spur China’s e-commerce growth

A man delivers parcels ordered online in Shanghai. Photo: AFP

It’s time to buy Chinese breweries as takeovers, consolidation loom

Snow beer, owned by China Resources Beer, ranks as the world’s most popular lager by volume of sales. Photo: One Red Eye

Chinese taste returns for Western-style spirits

Brands on show at the Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, which houses the largest whisky collection in the world. Western-style spirit sales hit US$700m last year in China, and are expected to rise another 71.5pc by 2020. Photo: Alamy

These two Chinese baijiu makers are poised for growth, says HSBC

Kweichow Moutai, producer of a popular brand of baijiu, should benefit from rising affluence among China’s middle class, according to HSBC. Photo: Imaginechina

Good times ahead for Chinese pharmaceutical companies

The dual invoice system aims at improving transparency in drug prices and eliminating excessive profit margins associated with multi-tier distribution models. Photo: Xinhua

Jefferies is upbeat on these two Chinese private education companies

China’s private education market is set for solid growth even as the economy slows, analysts say

China’s belt and road projects attracted more investment in 2016

Biological therapy tipped as having huge potential in China

Deutsche Bank analysts expect to see substantial growth opportunities in China’s monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) market in the coming five years. These are therapies used in the treatment of serious conditions such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s diseases, and osteoporosis.Photo: AFP

Rise in luxury spending won’t save department stores

A shopping mall in Beijing, China. Photo: EPA

‘Smog refugees’ fly off for cleaner air over New Year

December 16, 2016, Beijing Airport. One of the worst days of the year for visibility in the city and its air quality. Photo: SCMP

Base metal prices fall on PBOC rate rise

Base metal prices, including copper nickel and zinc, have been hit hard by China’s surprise interest rate rise, but analysts have mixed views on whether prices will rise later in the year as the country continues down its route of supply side reform. Photo: Reuters

Is China heading for a benchmark rate rise?

The headquarters of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

Macau casino hotel holiday bookings point to recovery in gaming

Flaring US-China tensions cast shadow over offshore yuan

The Chinese and US flags side-by-side along Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue during former Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the US capital in 2011. Relations have chilled considerably between the world’s two largest economies since. Photo: Reuters

Jeweller Chow Tai Fook set for mild but bumpy recovery

Hong Kong-listed Chow Tai Fook said its same-store sales from October to December compared with the same period last year in mainland China rose four per cent, while in Hong Kong and Macau they slipped two per cent. Photo: Bloomberg

Analysis | Private hospitals set to profit from healthcare reforms

A nurse tends to a boy who has undergone cataract surgery in a hospital in Suining in Sichuan Province. Private hospitals, especially those focusing on conditions considered as “minor specialities”, such as eye diseases, are predicted to enjoy strong profit growth in the next few years, according to fresh research. . Photo: Getty Images

China carmaker seen attractive after positive profit alert

Analysts divided over Mengniu’s deal to increase CMD stake

Cows get milked at a milking station owned by Mengniu in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia region. Photo: AP

China’s new forex control a blow to Hong Kong insurers

The share price of AIA Group, the largest life insurer in Hong Kong, has slid 20 per cent from its peak in October. Photo: AFP

Divided opinions on China’s December data reflect uncertainty

Manufacturing and non manufacturing PMIs were solid at year end, but what comes next?

China’s non-life insurers may see slower growth

Motor insurance, the major business class in non-life insurance, saw premiums rise by9.28 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2016, down from 12 per cent in 2015. Photo: SCMP Handout