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...demand for foreign currency-denominated long-term savings policies remains strong, given [the] interest rate differential between Hong Kong and mainland China,” said Billy Teh, associate director at S&P...
...Despite gloomy predictions about the US stock market earlier in the year, the S&P 500 was up more than 18 per cent year to date on July 14....
...The booming industry has defied China’s economic slowdown, writes the FT’s Chan Ho-him, a proud owner of an adopted African pygmy hedgehog. But there is a grim side to this story....
...National security is number one,” said John P Burns, an honorary professor of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong....
...The private Caixin/S&P index on Tuesday also showed manufacturing declined last month, posting a figure of 49.2. A reading below 50 indicates a contraction....
...“I wanted to cheer people up,” Chan recalls....
...News round-up Morgan Stanley accused of duping ECB with fake Frankfurt job title (FT) S&P Global close to acquisition of research platform Visible Alpha (FT) Carlyle in talks with London airport owner...
...Australia: January CPI inflation rate data Hong Kong: financial secretary Paul Chan Mo-po presents the 2024-25 Budget to the Legislative Council....
...The company subsequently grew by acquiring other companies and counts Platts, part of credit rating company S&P, among its competitors....
...This all comes in the opening moments of “Lean Beef Patty”, a brief blast of a track with a tinny, sped-up sample of a P Diddy song called “I Need a Girl”, hyperactive rhythms and aggressively hollered rapping...
...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....
...Yuanta/P-shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF has a 45 per cent exposure to the chipmaker....
...Wall Street suffers worst sell-off since June 2020 The benchmark S&P 500 index tumbled 4.3 per cent yesterday, with 99 per cent of its companies sliding in value after US inflation increased unexpectedly...
...The resulting stock price surge lifted the company’s p/b sharply (with the caveat that measuring p/b is more art than science): Change is coming from on high, too....
...Last week, BlueMark announced it had raised $10mn from S&P Global, Temasek and other investors....
...The first, “Persistence of Growth”, updates a 2002 paper by Louis KC Chan, Jason J Karceski and Josef Lakonishok....
...It isn’t completely gone, but it is reduced, while [Xi] basically wants the financial position of Hong Kong to continue,” said John P Burns, an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Hong Kong...
...Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the results hinted that “worse is to come”....
...Laddawan Tantivitayapitak, secretary-general of election watchdog Open Forum for Democracy Foundation (P-Net), said some voters had taken money but voted for Move Forward anyway....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 index also declined on Thursday with a 3.5 per cent loss....
...So you could say that this is a waste of time and money,” said John P Burns, an emeritus professor in politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong....
...For JPMAM, the most successful strategy in the active space last year in Asia was the JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF, which invests in S&P 500 stocks while using trading options to supplement income....
...But TSMC still seems cheap (note that Intel’s p/e ratio below is inflated by its crashing profits): TSMC’s competitive position within the chip industry is also no shakier....
...Markets: The US S&P 500 index dropped into a correction while oil prices neared $100 a barrel yesterday....
...The S&P/ASX 200 index, the flagship index for the Australian Securities Exchange, fell more than 8 per cent in January, wiping out almost all of the gains from the consistent growth in 2021 that helped the...
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