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Yuan decline accelerates. Whodunnit?
Yuan decline accelerates. Whodunnit?

(ATF) The PBoC on Wednesday morning set yuan parity at 7.1092. But that was either a serious misjudgment...

Markets jittery ahead of China’s national security law
Markets jittery ahead of China’s national security law

(ATF) Hong Kong: Financial markets are bracing for further tensions as US President Donald Trump has said he will...

Coronavirus takes huge bite out of Chinese profitability
Coronavirus takes huge bite out of Chinese profitability

(ATF) Profits at China’s major industrial firms continued to fall in the first four months of 2020, with...

G20 Finance Projects Give $77bn a Year to Fossil Fuels
China’s mask boom takes fabric away from nappy makers
Investors cautious on Trump’s China sanctions talk
As Japan, Germany reopen, global stocks jump; yuan stabilizes
Markets lifted by stimulus, reopenings
China lowers enterprise financing costs again
China keen to beef up laws against bond, securities fraud

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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