Category: FINANCE

Now China is undergoing a minor baby boom ... asking endless questions to decide if it was worth the risk of having another child at their age. "Due to financial reasons, most people don’t want to have a lot of kids anyway," she said. ( read original story ...)

BEIJING -- China will maintain fiscal support for supply-side structural reform next year, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Thursday. The MOF will help cutting industrial capacity, reducing the housing inventory, lowering leverage and cutting ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING China's central bank on Wednesday rejected a media report that the yuan had weakened beyond the 7.0000 per dollar level in the onshore market on Dec. 28, calling the report "irresponsible". The yuan traded between 6.9500 and 6.9666 per dollar on ... ( read original story ...)

What was notable about China’s currency in 2016 wasn’t that it had its worst ... taking the currency on a round trip to levels last seen before the global financial crisis. But in the grand scheme of things, the slide did... ( read original story ...)

Chinese authorities are proposing tighter rules governing how insurers invest in the stock market, in an effort to keep check on practices they believe put the country’s broader financial system at risk. Proposals released by the country’s insurance ... ( read original story ...)

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG China's cash-strapped LeEco said it is in talks to secure ... but the announcement was seen as insufficient to dispel concern over the high-tech conglomerate's financial health. Led by tycoon Jia Yueting, LeEco expanded aggressively ... ( read original story ...)

China’s apparent oil demand in October 2016 edged up by 1.1% from the same month last year to 11.12 million barrels per day (b/d), according to an analysis of Chinese government data by S&P Global Platts, independent provider of information and benchmark ... ( read original story ...)

(tmsnrt.rs/2hMAvzX) The story begins in 2009, when China launched a $600 billion economic stimulus program during the global financial crisis. It unleashed a wave of borrowing by state firms that is proving to be a burden today. China's debt this year ... ( read original story ...)

The index futures was launched at the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) and started trading from April 16, 2010. The CFFEX has set the base value for all the contracts at 3,399 points. (This article is generated by Xinhua News Robot.) ( read original story ...)

BEIJING China needs a real estate tax to control rising property prices and narrow the gap between rich and poor, Fan Gang, a member of the central bank monetary policy committee, was quoted as saying. Reasons for the delay include resistance from vested ... ( read original story ...)