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China deal sends shares to one-month high, rouble surges
November 10th, 2014
A landmark deal to give global investors easier access to China’s $3.9 trillion stock market helped lift world shares to their highest in over a month on Monday, as renewed tensions in Libya and Ukraine pushed up oil prices. ...
Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect gets China go-ahead
November 10th, 2014
Regulators have approved a long-awaited plan to connect the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will allow investors to trade across the border for the first time and is set to begin on 17 ...
Singapore Returns Up to $9 Billion to Banks in Rate Probe
November 7th, 2014
Singapore’s central bank gave back as much as S$12 billion ($9.3 billion) that it took from 19 lenders last year as a penalty for trying to manipulate benchmark interest rates. The banks have taken steps to prevent a recurrence ...
Lenovo Second-Quarter Profit Climbs, but Shares Dip
November 6th, 2014
Lenovo Group Ltd reported quarterly revenue that missed analyst estimates, with a decline in smartphone sales curbing investor optimism about the world’s biggest maker of personal computers (PCs) turning into a force in mobile devices. Lenovo’s earnings came at ...
Samsung Electronics seeks China turnaround, unveils mid-tier handsets
October 31st, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled two new mid-tier handsets with a premium design as it prepared to deliver a riposte to its low-priced Chinese rivals and reclaim its title as the top brand in the world’s biggest smartphone market. ...
Antitrust Goes International
October 30th, 2014
In a globalizing world economy, it’s perhaps no surprise that mergers and acquisitions are also crossing national borders more frequently–and that the risk of cartel-like behavior across national borders is also rising. The OECD lays out some background in ...
Hong Kong Ready for Trading Link With Shanghai
October 29th, 2014
The head of Hong Kong’s stock market regulator said Wednesday that his agency had ticked all the boxes needed to start a highly anticipated project connecting the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges, indicating delays were coming from its ...
Asia stocks mostly rise after European bank stress tests
October 27th, 2014
Asian stocks mostly rose after most of Europe’s largest banks passed a stress test aimed at checking the strength of the region’s financial system. European regulators examined the balance sheets of 130 lenders. In total, 25 banks failed, ten ...
Falling Coal Prices Wreaking Havoc With Corporate Balance Sheets
October 24th, 2014
The slide in oil prices has raised speculation that oil companies in the U.S. could be forced to cut back on production, but a market slump in another commodity is also putting pressure on producers. Coal markets are currently ...
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect holds profits for sharp-eyed investors
October 17th, 2014
CapitalVue’s Elias Glenn explains how to own a piece of a Communist Party Newspaper or Zhou Enlai’s favorite liquor with the SH-HK Stock Connect Baijiu is going global: Under a program to be launched in October, individual investors in ...
