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This year's bond 'crash' threatens credit events and a liquidation of the world's most crowded trades, Bank of America warned.
"It's not that [investors] don't believe in China, just that they are reducing that exposure," Affinity Equity Partners founding chairman Tang Kok-Yew said.
Stocks across the region were still retreating on Friday after the US Fed’s pessimistic rate hikes forecast rattled investors and unsettled currencies
Currency traders said the currency swap deal with the National Pension Service would remove a big source of dollar demand and could help bolster the weakening currency
The intervention came after the Bank of Japan stuck with its ultra-low rate policy, which prompted a drop in the yen past 145 per dollar to a 24-year low.
The ETFs will test investor appetite for chipmakers, producers of new materials and machine tool manufacturers at a time when rivalry between the US and China in the chip sector is intensifying
The China Aviation Lithium Battery Co plans to use the proceeds to build new battery production lines
A feeble yen is less of a benefit for Japan’s manufacturers than it used to be as companies have moved production and supply chains overseas
About 10 officials from the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Finance have arrived in Hong Kong to aid and monitor the audit inspection, sources say
Hong Kong stocks tumbled to a near 11-year low and Japan shares slipped after the US Fed hiked rates again and warned there was more pain to come
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