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April 22, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / Digital Yuan
President Xi Jinping will attend US President Joe Biden's virtual climate summit later today, to coincide with Earth Day. President Biden has invited 40 world leaders to the meeting and China’s foreign ministry said President Xi will give an "importan...
32 min
April 21, 2021 Business and Market Discussion
President Xi Jinping has called for a fairer new world order and warned against an economic decoupling between China and the USA. In a thinly veiled attack on America, he said the rules set by one country cannot be imposed on others and “international...
32 min
April 20, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
The world’s first travel bubble came into operation yesterday. The long-awaited Australia-New Zealand travel bubble means visitors no longer need to quarantine on arrival and thousands of passengers waited to board flights on Monday. Qantas increased ...
32 min
April 19, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
China’s GDP jumped 18.3% year-on-year in the first three months of 2021, the fastest rate since records began in 1992 but slightly below economists’ forecasts for 19% growth. But on a quarter-on-quarter basis the economy expanded just 0.6%, well below ...
32 min
April 16, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
Progress with the vaccination campaign in the United States has sparked a sharp rebound in jobs and spending. Initial jobless claims fell by 193,000 to 576,000 in the week ending April 10, a pandemic era low. Retail sales surged by a seasonally adjust...
32 min
April 15, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
Crypto-trading platform Coinbase closed its first day of trading on the NASDAQ at $328 compared to a reference price of $250, valuing the cryptocurrency exchange at $86bn. Founded in 2012, the direct listing propels Coinbase into one of the top 100 mo...
32 min
April 14, 2021 Business and Market Discussion
China yesterday ordered 34 internet companies to rectify their anti-competitive practices within the next month. The State Administration for Market Regulation summoned companies including Tencent, Meituan, Baidu, JD.com and Bytedance and told them it...
32 min
April 13, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / Non-fungible Tokens
China’s payments and finance giant, Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, has been ordered by the PBOC to “cut off” the “improper connections'' between its payment platform and its financial products, as part of its rectification programme ordered by re...
32 min
April 12, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has fined Alibaba a record 18.2 billion yuan (US$2.8bn), representing 4% of its domestic sales in 2019, in its anti-monopoly probe. Regulators have been investigating the world’s biggest online retail...
32 min
April 09, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
The Biden Administration is ramping up its calls for a global minimum corporation tax. Yesterday it laid out proposals for the world’s largest multinational companies to pay levies to national governments based on their sales in each country, regardle...
32 min

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