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Markets rise on stimulus hopes, economic data
Markets rise on stimulus hopes, economic data

(ATF) Expectations of more stimulus targeting economies and consumers ravaged by the coronavirus lifted Asian markets even as...

Global coronavirus bond issuance exceeds $122 billion
Global coronavirus bond issuance exceeds $122 billion

(ATF) Research by China’s International Political and Economic Information Network has calculated the bonds issued globally to date...

China faces an unemployment time bomb
China faces an unemployment time bomb

Strip away the veneer of President Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” policy and you will find 600 million people...

Green bonds get top-level shake-up
China offers A shares to more foreign investors
UK and EU back in the Brexit ring
A Hong Kong dollar peg to the euro instead of the Trump dollar?
Masterplan for Hainan free trade port unveiled
Investors bet on economic recovery after reopenings
Kweichow Moutai value tops 1.8tn yuan

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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