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Demand concerns for the world’s No2 economy cast a shadow across the region’s trading floors, trumping a U-turn in technology shares
US Treasury Secretary said in May that India and China were hindering a global deal on an alternative transfer-pricing mechanism in the Pillar 1 agreement; G20 finance minister talks are now continuing in Rio
The amount raised so far this year from China is up 1,588% on the same period in 2023, the LSEG data showed; Japan's deal value has increased by 486%.
The tightening of regulations on China's 5.2 trillion yuan ($715 billion) hedge fund sector comes as President Xi Jinping seeks to foster a leaner and cleaner financial industry
The chipmaker — now the world’s most valuable company — is planning to develop processors from its new 'Blackwell' chip series and sell them in China
The retirement age for men is 60, five to six years below most developed economies, while for women it is 50 or 55. The move will ease a soaring pension budgets crisis
Investors across the region took Biden’s election withdrawal in their stride but the impact of last week’s Microsoft-related outage was still being felt
The PBOC cut rates on its seven-day reverse purchase agreements, leading to a similar drop in its loan prime rates (LPR), pulling bond yields down across the curve
Foreign investor flows into Asian bonds also dropped 34% in the first six months of the year, data showed
TSMC's shares had been on a roll until US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Taiwan of stealing American chip business and asked the island to 'pay for its defence'
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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
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