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China Telecom announces first bond
China Telecom announces first bond

(ATF) – China Telecom has announced that it intends to issue no more than 3 billion yuan (US$432.5 million)...

New Securities law has more holes
New Securities law has more holes

(ATF) – With the dramatic imposition of the new Securities Law on March 1  governing financial markets in...

Markets see more rate cuts ahead
Markets see more rate cuts ahead

Trade of the Day: Stocks broadly higher on further easing hopes; Wall Street gets Biden boost; US Treasuries...

China bond futures rise sharply
Move to manage bond defaults
Chinese scientists identify mutation in Covid-19
Fed cuts rates by 50 basis points
Australia’s Q4 GDP better than expected
Covid-19 hammers China and Hong Kong
CCP hopes to turn Covid 19 into a propaganda victory

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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