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Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... Just imagine the gloom and doom scenario this creates -- Foreign capital outflows that would put downward pressure on the Chinese yuan that, in turn, would reduce the country's foreign exchange reserves; then there's the higher interest rates on foreign ...

Macron won't stop populist tide: William Blair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... central bank intervention is precluding normal market asset pricing, the fading commodity super cycle, a turnaround in Chinese growth and the growing global anti-establishment movement. "Populism is in everybody's lexicon now - it's mainstream. We first ...

Asia leads growing green bond market

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... the view that the asset class is becoming more geographically diverse. Fitch said growth in Asia was mainly driven by Chinese and Indian banks. Fitch's head of credit market research Monica Insoll said these bonds are often developed in hard currency ...

NAB sells Asian private wealth arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
National Australia Bank is divesting its private wealth business in Singapore and Hong Kong to Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in a move that will simplify its Asian operations. The sale of its high-net-worth division entitles OCBC Bank to about ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... sector. Also, the faster than expected 6.9% first quarter growth rate (from 6.8% in the year to the December quarter) in the Chinese economy provides a buffer to Prime Minister Li's 6.5% growth target for 2017 should growth slow. Besides, this is what ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem?" after his cordial meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. The world is back at a trade peace... or so it seemed. This time the ...

Republic Capital chief executive departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... new director has also been appointed: Noblemen Ventures chair and chief executive Wayne Johnson. Johnson also co-founded Chinese internet business Foocaa. Republic Capital is a fintech group, founded by Thomas and executive director Laurence Milne, specialising ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Li starts to get what he likes... and then some. Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang's 6.5% growth target for this year is tracking well (surprise, surprise) - with a buffer to boot - as China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Trump's actions against Syria show that he walks the talk, putting Chinese president Xi on notice that the US may yet make good on its threat to slap a 45% tariff on Chinese imports. America's missile assault on Syria, in retaliation for the chemical ...

Not off the boil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Chinese authorities' regulatory restrictions to cool the housing market appear to be having little impact on property prices. Latest figures show that the average price of new homes in 70 Chinese cities rose by 0.3% in the month of February following ...