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Deflation on horizon, China cuts rates further
Deflation on horizon, China cuts rates further

(ATF) After cutting the medium-term loan facility (MLF), it’s major policy tool, already twice this year, the People’s Bank...

Lockdown extensions roil Asian markets
Lockdown extensions roil Asian markets

(ATF) Hong Kong: Asian markets slid on Friday as investors worried about the severity of the economic damage from...

Shenzhen Metro first through the online bond tunnel
Shenzhen Metro first through the online bond tunnel

(ATF) Shenzhen Metro Group has become the first company to go through China’s ‘streamlined’ bureaucratic processing – being...

Congress backs $484 billion economic stimulus bill
Bank of England warns of worst recession in centuries
Crude up again on Iran-US tension
Asianrally stalls as investors survey economic damage
Agricultural Bank to issue tier-2 capital bonds
Investors look past glum EU data
Everything’s up or down as bears and bulls battle to standstill

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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