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...One example is the $137bn New York State Teachers’ Retirement System, which sold 34 private equity holdings with $3.5bn in total commitments on the secondary market at the end of last year....
...More Chinese residents are also struggling for work: youth unemployment hit a record 21.3 per cent in June, prompting authorities to stop reporting the data....
...The PlayStation 3 was a strategic product for Sony as the company aimed to increase its presence in the semiconductor industry....
...But the fate of TikTok in the US might not be decided as quickly as some US lawmakers might’ve hoped, Nikkei Asia’s Yifan Yu writes....
...As a result, average interest coverage — the ratio of earnings to interest expenses — for private credit loans dropped to two times in the third quarter of last year from 3.1 times in the second quarter...
...The $106bn Virginia Retirement System told the Financial Times it planned to increase its leverage level from zero to 1 per cent in the “near-term future” and expected the ratio to reach as high as 3 per...
...to keep the scheme’s rolls from shrinking further, “it is getting harder and harder to persuade farmers to join the programme”, said a health official in Anhui, a rural central province that reported a 3...
...He estimates there are now about 100,000 “alternative-minded” people in the Dali prefecture, whose population is 3.6mn....
...Gou trails far behind on 6.3 per cent. With the deadline to register presidential candidacies three weeks away, Hou and Ko’s camps have started frantic negotiations....
...The economy expanded 1.3 per cent on a quarterly basis, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said, regaining some momentum after growth of just 0.5 per cent in the April-June period....
...Fixed-asset investment, an important measure of capital spending in China, rose 3.1 per cent in the nine months to the end of September....
...Under a polling blackout that took effect on January 3, it is unclear whether Lai remains the frontrunner, as he has been throughout the past year....
...In June, the youth unemployment rates hit 21.3 per cent before the government stopped releasing the figures, a likely byproduct of the shrinking of the internet sector that was a big employer of young graduates...
...Hou Yu-ih from the Kuomintang, the largest opposition party, had 33.5 per cent of the vote and Ko Wen-je from the smaller Taiwan People’s party had attracted 26.5 per cent....
...Imports in September also shed 6.2 per cent, better than the previous month’s 7.3 per cent decline but slightly missing expectations....
...Most of the VCs are from the US, but more and more Asian names are becoming active in the country as well, Nikkei Asia’s Silicon Valley correspondent Yifan Yu reports....
...Oppo has long ranked as the No 3 smartphone maker in Singapore, and one of the top smartphone makers in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam....
...The Reuters poll had forecast 7.3 per cent growth....
...Yesterday’s reading clocked in at 3.7 per cent. But core inflation, which strips out volatile stuff like food and fuel, that’s a different story. The FT’s US economics editor Colby Smith explains....
...by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Yifan Yu of Nikkei Asia writes....
...LG Display is the world’s only mass producer of large OLED panels, although OLED TVs only make up 3 per cent of the global TV market....
...Yu expects yen strength to continue, with the Bank of Japan widely expected to drop its negative interest rate policy in the coming months....
...Mixue opened its first international store in Hanoi in 2018 and now has more than 3,000 stores outside of China....
...Lai was leading before a polling blackout was imposed on January 3....
...The contracts offered a 15 per cent yield over two years as long as the CSI 500 did not fall more than 20 per cent or rise more than 3 per cent....
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