SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank surprised financial markets on Friday by raising short-term interest rates on the first day back from a long holiday, in a further sign of a tightening policy bias as…
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China net 2016 outflows at record $725 billion: IIF
LONDON Capital outflows from China surged last year to a record $725 billion and could pick up further if U.S. firms face political pressure to repatriate profits, the Institute of International Finance said on Thursday.…
China Understands The Limits Of Financial Engineering
When China published “Some Measures to Expand China’s Openness and Aggressively Utilize Foreign Investment Capital,” a lightbulb went on in my head: China finally “gets” the limits of financial engineering and will return to first…
Philippines, China to explore hybrid financing of projects
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said that Gao Hucheng, China’s Commerce minister, welcomed the proposal of the Philippines to finance projects submitted to Beijing with multilateral lending institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB…
China's 'Silk Road' push stirs resentment and protest in Sri Lanka
Losses at the port added up to around $230 million in the five years to the end of 2016, according to the Sri Lankan finance ministry. China’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, Yi Xianliang, said the…
Duterte Seeks Beijing's Financial Help in its Fight Against Islamic Extremists
President Rodrigo Duterte has called on Beijing to grant Manila a loan that will be used … President Rodrigo Duterte is seeking China’s financial help by way of a loan to be used in acquiring…
Master of Applied Finance BEIJING, CHINA
2 MASTER OF APPLIED FINANCE Why Macquarie? Macquarie University s Master of Applied Finance program has equipped more than 4,000 graduates from around the world with the necessary knowledge and skills to succeed in the…
China billionaire's disappearance from Hong Kong revives autonomy concerns
The Financial Times reported that Xiao … Xiao, who has close ties to senior Chinese officials and their relatives, was ranked 32nd on the 2016 Hurun China rich list, China’s equivalent of the Forbes list,…
Deadline day: Chinese Super League flexes financial muscle during January transfer window
READ: Cristiano Ronaldo’s $315M Chinese rumor kicks off transfer ‘silly season’ READ: Inside China’s $185M football factory READ: Oscar joins Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG READ: China’s million-dollar dream of soccer world domination Exorbitant…
China and shadow financing: Part 2
Probably the most interesting and major financial development in China has been the growth of trusts. Banks were allowed to have their wealth-management products invest in trust plans, and these trusts have funded government infrastructure…
China’s Impossible Trinity
Yet it’s still somehow forgotten or ignored by the very people who pull the financial and monetary levers of our world. China is a prime example. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is fighting tooth…
Genworth: Is The China Oceanwide Deal Really At Risk?
The buyout of Genworth Financial Inc. (NYSE:GNW) has been, to say the least, under a cloud of doubt recently. The stock last traded at $3.30/share on January 30th versus the $5.43/share cash buyout price agreed…
China's shadow banking crusade has risks
Shadow banking, a term for financial agents that perform bank-like activity but are not regulated as banks, has boomed in China, the world’s second-largest economy, as a way of circumventing government’s tight controls on lending.…
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