Hints and tips:
...Lululemon’s shares have surged 49 per cent over the past 12 months — easily beating a 4.6 per cent rise for the S&P Retail Select Industry index....
...This included successive meetings with China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, half-brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who led the resistance...
...Well, when Apple has a tough week on some discouraging news from China, the whole S&P 500 is dragged lower. If you are in the market, you are overweight Apple unless you’ve taken pains not to be....
...The day ahead Economic data The EU has December retail sales figures, Germany releases factory orders for the same month and S&P Global publishes its construction purchasing managers’ index for the UK....
...Ma, Xie and the VIEs have contractual relationships with the companies that shareholders own. Owning the ADSs is a bet that these contracts will not leak value....
...Around early 2019, Yao Jing, the then Chinese ambassador to Pakistan, met in Quetta with officials from the Balochistan provincial government....
...Alok Sharma, COP26 president, said there was “still more to be done” on the summit’s draft text and hinted that discussions may go past the end of COP26’s official discussions....
...Those seeking to understand the evolution of modern China might find an original perspective in Jing Tsu’s Kingdom of Characters (Allen Lane, January), in which the Yale professor looks at how the adaptation...
...The Vix volatility index, otherwise known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge”, measures near-term expected swings in S&P 500 equities, as implied by options prices....
...The quartet’s shares account for almost a fifth of the S&P 500....
...“Becoming a public company will enhance transparency to our stakeholders, including customers, business partners, employees, shareholders and regulators,” said executive chairman Eric Jing....
...“This typically has been a good time to be invested in healthcare,” Erin Xie, portfolio manager at BlackRock, said in a blog post....
...“Guo Shuqing’s performance so far has been quite remarkable,” said Xie Yunliang, analyst at Minsheng Securities, who noted that the leverage in China’s financial sector had fallen more than 22 per cent between...
...“By then we had stopped trying as hospitals were either closed or packed with patients with different levels of symptoms,” says Xie Jing, her daughter....
...Mr Xie noted that liquidity tightened slightly in the interbank market early this week before the central bank took steps to facilitate access to cash....
...The S&P 500 dropped 2.4 per cent on Monday, its worst one-day fall since January, but rebounded slightly on Tuesday....
...The poor performance of Chinese tech companies on the public markets, where nearly all 2018’s 30-odd listings ended below their offer price, further dented confidence....
...“When they first proposed BRI, the government was very vague on what it included,” said Christopher Lee, chief corporate ratings officer for greater China at S&P Global Ratings....
...Alibaba’s latest filing switched ownership of these VIEs from Mr Ma and co-founder Simon Xie to an expanded group of five executives drawn from the Alibaba Partnership....
...The financing landscape is the most unfavourable for years,” S&P credit analyst Christopher Yip in Hong Kong wrote in that report....
...The S&P 500 also opened lower as investors reacted to the ratcheting up of trade tensions between the US and China, hitting steel producers and selected manufacturers....
...These are timed to coincide with seasonal campaigns, such as the lunar new year, and have involved influencers such as actor Zhang Jing and choreographer Yang Liping taking over Watches of Switzerland’s...
...Jing’an Park This park, in a busy commercial area but surrounded by a perimeter of trees, is an implausibly peaceful oasis....
...Jing Gu, director of the Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development at Sussex university in the UK, agrees that Africa has provided China with a testing ground for both military engagement and diplomacy...
...Hong Kong company records show two dissolved shipping companies registered under Xie Qun’s name....
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