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Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... 100 bps cut in the reserve requirement ratio are included. The negative implication is that the PBOC worries that PM Li Keqiang's 7.0% growth target is slipping from its hands. The positive is that it would continue easing until it's certain that PM ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... 3,577.30 - its highest close since mid-May 2008 - with investors still buoyed by weekend comments from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that the government was fully equipped to support the economy if it continues to struggle. Hong Kong gained 0.91 per cent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... HONG KONG - Shanghai was the stand-out stock market in the region, extending last week's gains after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the government had enough in its armoury to support the world's number two economy. Shanghai jumped 2.27 per cent, or ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... points, to close at 18,751.84. China's National People's Congress, the rubber-stamp legislature, opened with Premier Li Keqiang setting a growth target for this year of "approximately seven per cent", which would be the slowest in 25 years. WELLINGTON ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... growth. How quickly they forget. They've quickly forgotten that only five months before, when Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang told us what he likes, in black and white. Writing in Britain's The Times newspaper last June, Premier Li told us: "China's ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... 3.5%. This would give the Chinese central bank plenty of scope to ease monetary policy if necessary to achieve Premier Li Keqiang's 7.5% economic growth target. Not that the economy needs it, but just in case. China's GDP has already begun to accelerate ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... play with. While it's quite the opposite in Beijing - the Politburo's stimulating - the effect is going the way as PM Li Keqiang wants. HSBC/Markit's preliminary estimate of China's manufacturing PMI rose to a 50.8 reading in June, the first time in ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... wants, it gets... or heads will roll (sometimes literally). In his speech before the BOE yesterday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang again (but some just refuse to listen) told us what the politburo wants: "I can promise everyone honestly and solemnly, there ...

7.5% in black and white

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... "Do you want fries with that?" Yes Virginia, this moment is at hand. For this time, we get to read Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's thoughts - he penned himself, in english - on the eve of his visit to the land of the English (he's there now). Not about ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... Similarly, why do expectations for stimulus remain in China? According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences "Premier Li Keqiang said there won't be strong stimulus, but he didn't say there won't be any stimulus".... and in the eurozone? "Euro-zone ...