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China: Housing market perks up in January, but uptick could be short-lived

Focus Economics - 25/02/2021

House prices in 70 large- and medium-sized cities increased 0.3% in January in month-on-month terms according to a weighted average index calculated by Refinitiv from data issued by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The print was up from December’s 0.1% reading. Tier-1 cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou led the overall increase…

China seen keeping lending benchmark LPR steady for 10th straight month

Financial Post - 19/02/2021

Article content SHANGHAI — China’s benchmark lending rate is set to stay unchanged for the 10th straight month at its February fixing on Saturday, a Reuters survey showed. Thirty-one traders...

China, Hong Kong stocks drop as policy tightening fears weigh

Financial Post - 19/02/2021

Article content SHANGHAI — China and Hong Kong stocks dropped on Friday, as investors fret over liquidity conditions following a report that the China central bank was focusing more on...

China more focused on money market rates than size of liquidity operations – paper

Financial Post - 18/02/2021

Article content BEIJING — China’s central bank is focusing more on money market interest rates in its regular open market operations than the size of the operations, the central bank...

Yuan inches higher on PBOC’s prudent stance and strong holiday sales

Financial Post - 18/02/2021

Article content SHANGHAI — China’s yuan inched higher against the dollar on the first trading day after the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, supported by the central bank’s persistently prudent...

China blue-chips hit over 13-year high on robust inflation data

Financial Post - 10/02/2021

Article content SHANGHAI — China stocks ended higher in the last trading session before the Lunar New Year holiday, with blue-chip stocks scaling an over 13-year high on Wednesday as...

China blue-chips scale over 13-year high on recovery cheer; Hong Kong up

Financial Post - 10/02/2021

Article content SHANGHAI — China stocks advanced in the last trading session before the Lunar New Year holiday, with the blue-chip index scaling a more than 13-year high on Wednesday...

Pakistan struggling to repay China Belt and Road loan, to seek debt relief

Al Arabiya - 10/02/2021

Pakistan plans to ask China for relief on payments for power projects Beijing financed over the past eight years, the latest developing nation that’s struggling to repay debt under President...

Take Five: Dollar signs

Financial Post - 05/02/2021

Article content continued Short-term rates have eased after leaping to almost six-year highs, but stocks are jittery and investors are wondering if the squeeze represents de-facto policy tightening, especially given...

Power, Patriotism and 1.4 Billion People:How China Beat the Virus and Roared Back

The New York Times - 05/02/2021

The Chinese Communist Party reached deep into private business and the broader population to drive a recovery, an authoritarian approach that has emboldened its top leader, Xi Jinping.The order came...

Fewer Singapore firms expanded overseas last year, but more press on with productivity efforts

Channel News Asia - 05/02/2021

SINGAPORE: Fewer Singapore businesses ventured overseas last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but more took on projects to raise productivity and build new capabilities, said Enterprise Singapore (ESG) on Friday...

Evergrande seeks safe descent from $130bn debt mountain

NIKKEI - 05/02/2021

HONG KONG -- China Evergrande Group has gone from narrowly avoiding a cash crunch in September to being able to pay back a $2 billion bond early -- but that...

Ant, China banks reining in joint loans to consumers

The Straits Times - 05/02/2021

BEIJING • Ant Group and at least a dozen banks are paring back their years-long cooperation on consumer lending platforms that fuel the spending of at least 500 million people...

Stocks inch higher as Yellen meets Fed, SEC on Reddit trading madness

Fox Business News - 05/02/2021

'Making Money' host Charles Payne answers viewer questions and gives advice on investing in the stock market.U.S. equity markets were modestly higher Thursday morning as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was...

What the fate of HNA Group says about China Inc’s foreign ambitions

Economist - 05/02/2021

Feb 4th 2021HONG KONGFEW LIFE stories are as soap-operatic as Lai Xiaomin’s. The fallen state financier dallied with more than 100 mistresses, according to Chinese media. He was subsequently caught...

Africa’s recovery from covid-19 will be slow

Economist - 04/02/2021

Feb 6th 2021DAKAR, JOHANNESBURG AND NAIROBIAT FIRST GLANCE, sub-Saharan Africa appears to have avoided the worst of the pandemic. It has 14% of the world’s population but, even as it...

Rabobank: The Same Central-Bank Trends Are Emerging Everywhere

ZeroHedge - 04/02/2021

By Michael Every of RabobankPM Draghi-CBIt is for once a relatively uneventful day, by recent standards – apart from the UK and the EU potentially reopening the wound of the...

Stock Rally Fizzles Amid Growing Reflation Concerns, Rising Dollar