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Struggling Chinese Asset Manager Zhongzhi Looking at Debt Rejig
Struggling Chinese Asset Manager Zhongzhi Looking at Debt Rejig

Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, which manages over $137 billion in assets, has hired a top accounting firm to help it deal with a liquidity crisis. Its Zhongrong Trust has stopped payments to investors

Loss-Making VinFast Needs Revamp to Live Up to $85bn Valuation
Loss-Making VinFast Needs Revamp to Live Up to $85bn Valuation

The automaker remains far behind its sales targets and faces tough competition in an industry where an increasing number of players are burning cash and facing an intense price war

Hedge Funds Dump China Stocks Over Property, US Tech War Worry
Hedge Funds Dump China Stocks Over Property, US Tech War Worry

Recent net selling of Chinese equities was the largest over any 10-day period since October 2022 and one of the steepest moves in the past five years

China Woes Weigh on Hang Seng, Nikkei Drops on Banking Fears
China Seen Blocking US Chip Giant’s $5.4bn Merger With Tower
Japan GDP Grows At Fastest Pace in Two Years; Experts Sceptical
Move to Tone Down ‘China Risk’ Warnings May Spur SEC Queries
China Stops Publishing Youth Jobless Data Amid Record Numbers
Hang Seng Slides on China Fears, Bargain-Buyers Lift Nikkei
China’s Shock Rate Cuts Ring Alarm Bells After Weak July Data

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors