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Ant Group to lay $35 billion golden egg with Shanghai IPO
Ant Group to lay $35 billion golden egg with Shanghai IPO

(ATF) Ant Group – the finance arm of Alibaba – will raise its IPO funding target to $35...

Asian bourses drop as coronavirus surge bodes ill for economy
Asian bourses drop as coronavirus surge bodes ill for economy

(ATF) Asian stocks fell on Monday as increasing coronavirus infections around the world stoked concern that more economy-sapping...

We will be top economy by year-end, China media outlet says
We will be top economy by year-end, China media outlet says

(ATF) By its own calculations China now sees itself as the world’s number-one economy, or very close to it.

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Investors offload risk after Fed gets real
China Evergrande responds strongly in real estate debt war
CCP Announces Plan to Take Control of China’s Private Sector
NDRC takes credit for low corporate bond default rate of 0.2%

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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