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La Trobe registers for the Shanghai Free Trade Zone

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... access to finance in each economy." The Shanghai FTZ was launched last September with the backing of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and is the first free-trade zone in mainland China. Last month Westpac received approval to set-up a sub-branch in the Shanghai ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... growth. At 0820 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was down 12 points at 5,441. China premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday said the government was targeting 7.5 growth in 2014, unchanged from last year's forecast. The figure is ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... House of Representatives - 200 to the GOP's 232 (with 3 seats vacant). Too many chefs spoil the broth. Failing to be Li Keqiang, Obama's wishing for financial markets to act to force the political powers to act. Tsk, tsk...so far he's getting none of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... shipping volumes during the June quarter. Mr Spooner said the sector had been buoyed by comments from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang indicating the country would not allow economic growth, currently at 7.5 per cent annually, to drop below seven per cent. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... 23.80 points, to close at 1,904.15. Shanghai ended 1.95 per cent higher, adding 39.11 points to 2,043.88 after Premier Li Keqiang was quoted in state media as saying economic growth must not slip below the "bottom line" of seven per cent. Hong Kong rose ...

Boston Bombs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... a fall in daily crude steel output. But if you think about it, Wen may have retired but new Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is making sure Wen still gets what Wen wants -- that of a 7.5% GDP growth and that of shifting China's growth driver from external ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... years - from 51.5 in the previous month. Expect more data improvement once President-elect Xi Jinping and PM-elect Li Keqiang formally take up their positions this coming March. The betterer. The US labour market continues to heal. Jobless claims dropped ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... Except for the Gaza ceasefire, the world is the same as it was yesterday. But if you came across Premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang's article on the 'People's Daily' yesterday, it might not be same old same old for China. According to Blooomberg, Li wrote ...

Chinese equities poised for reform: BlackRock

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... conservative than reformist in nature," Ning said. "However it is also significant to note that other than Xi Jingping and Li Keqiang, the other five members of the committee are already over sixty years old." This means that they may not be able to ...

You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... the people living life in peace..." Perhaps it's the new leadership in China then. No one's sure how the Xi-Jinping/Li Keqiang tandem would fare compared with Batman and Robin, sorry, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao in terms of the direction for the Chinese ...