Air pollution levels in India have continued to increase, according to the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)’s Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) released on Tuesday …
FINANCE
Does geopolitics heighten risks of an East-West divide in the financial industry?
HSBC’s potential Asia split may signal that decoupling between the West and China is growing. The ongoing geopolitical tensions–both in Ukraine and in Taiwan–and sanctions imposed due to these issues …
Trump and China
Neither China nor the United States would benefit from a trade war, an arms race, or a military confrontation. So Washington should stick to its cautious, balanced approach — while also showing that …
China’s factories revive in May on unexpected rise in industrial production
Industrial output grew 0.7% in May from a year earlier, after falling 2.9% in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Wednesday.
China Puts Monetary Easing on Hold With Fed Set to Hike
China’s central bank abstained from cutting a key policy interest rate, avoiding further policy divergence from the US that could add pressure on the yuan. Most Read from BloombergChina Alarms US With …
China Will Test Markets With Biggest Offshore Bond Sale Since 2016
China will launch its largest offshore yuan sovereign bond sale in six years, testing global appetite during a debt market rout and a stream of outflows as global funds offload Chinese government …
China refrains from policy rate cut, defying market expectations once again
Zhang Ming, deputy director of the institute of finance at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said China’s consumer inflation is at an overall controllable level of 2.1 per cent but could be …
China to test market appetite for debt with biggest offshore bond sale since 2016
China’s sale of 7.5 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) worth of offshore sovereign bonds comes on the same day as the Federal Reserve is expected to consider its biggest interest-rate increase since 1994.
China’s crisis of confidence: has Xi taken a giant leap backwards?
China’s economy is in freefall due to Xi Jinping’s mismanagement, raising the question: can the great power still compete on the world stage?
Parties over dodging COVID lockdown lead to new lockdowns in Beijing
A bar where, just a week ago, Chinese people reveled on the night that life returned to normal is now ground-zero of Beijing’s second wave of COVID cases.
China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several …
Chinese banks cut investment banking staff in Hong Kong during IPO drought
Several major Chinese investment banks in Hong Kong including Haitong International and China Merchants Bank International have reduced staffing in their investment and equity cap …
China economy: with more US tightening on the horizon, could this be Beijing’s last chance to cut rates in 2022?
Many analysts expect China’s central bank to cut the rate on its medium-term lending facility on Wednesday, as the government steps up efforts to revive its pandemic-hit economy.
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