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...New phone, new name Twelve years to the day after Huawei unveiled its P series of flagship smartphones, the beleaguered Chinese tech titan began selling its latest phone, the revamped and renamed Pura 70...
...Lahiri’s middle-class Italians — such as the fiftysomething man in “P’s Parties” whose infatuation with a married woman reaches a hilarious denouement — grapple with the challenges of marriage, divorce,...
...The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu (Solaris) Hamlet reimagined as an SF locked-room murder mystery....
...Since the start of the pandemic, China’s 10 largest tech groups have collectively lost $300bn in market value, while their largest US peers have added almost $5tn, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...Indeed, CIC’s annual reports show that in almost every year since 2008, the fund’s performance has lagged that of the S&P 500, meaning that if investors had bought a simple index fund, they would have outperformed...
...“Confidence is kind of the wild card right now in China,” said Minyue Liu, investment specialist at BNP Paribas Asset Management....
...By comparison, over that same period the US’s S&P 500 and tech-focused Nasdaq Composite have risen roughly 37 and 52 per cent, respectively....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 oscillated between small gains and losses as it reopened after a long weekend, before closing 0.2 per cent lower. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 0.1 per cent....
...Now Arnott and his colleagues Chris Brightman, Xi Liu and Que Nguyen think they’re on to a new winner by in effect fusing the fundamental approach of its RAFI methodology with traditional cap-weighting....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu, Xinning Liu and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing...
...As Zongyuan Zoe Liu recently wrote, [by] “establishing commodities exchanges across its industrial cities, China aims to boost the use and power of the renminbi in global commodities pricing to establish...
...S&P’s Chang, however, pointed out that default rates in China remained comparatively low....
...Economics: S&P Global and IHS Markit publish data on the strength of the manufacturing sector in Japan and other regions, as supply chain disruptions continue to stifle production around the world....
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s collective price-earnings multiple of 18 is down a mere quarter....
...Analyst Esther Liu cautioned that the rescue package will “add new debts and increase the debt burden”....
...That will cost about Rmb20bn, according to S&P Global Ratings. Regulators hope their approach will placate the loud majority of smaller depositors....
...Nian Liu contributed reporting from Beijing...
...New York-listed shares in Chinese companies rallied the day after Liu He, a vice-premier, said that China would “support the platform economy”....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 rose 1.6 per cent in early dealings and the technology-focused Nasdaq Composite added 2.6 per cent, following strong stock market gains in Europe and Asia....
...Pantheon Macroeconomics’ chief China economist, Craig Botham: And here is home sales volumes: Try this little thought experiment: if the above was happening to US home prices and sales, what would the S&P...
...The benchmark S&P 500, which had climbed almost 6 per cent over the previous five sessions, dropped 1.2 per cent....
...It began to rally last week when Chinese vice-premier Liu He made a rare intervention to pledge state support for the economy and capital markets....
...The S&P 500 stock index closed 2.2 per cent higher, building on Tuesday’s gains to record its biggest two-day increase since April 2020....
...Young Liu, Foxconn’s chair, said on an investor call in August that the group “will be actively expanding” in India....
...In the end, though, the S&P 500 index shot more than 2 per cent higher on Fed day and just kept on going from there....
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