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Banking & Finance

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Stars in their eyes

Yestar to IPO on the back of plastic surgery craze
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

Two actresses climbed the celebrated steps at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. One was Fan Bingbing, one of China’s most famous stars. The other was Fan Bingbing too, or at least that is what many news outlets were erroneously reporting when ...

How to lose $46 billion

Xiaomi’s much-hyped IPO has seen its valuation chopped from $100 billion
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

It prides itself on building “amazing products at honest prices”. Yet it seems Xiaomi Corp does not believe that same credo applies to the valuation investors should accept for its initial public offering. The smartphone manufacturer is in ...

The only way is up

Foxconn and CATL spark buzz in China’s A-share IPO market
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

In recent years there has been much talk about Stock Connect – the channel that links mainland China’s two key bourses with Hong Kong’s stock exchange. But where the country’s equity markets are concerned right now the talk is much more ...

Following the flows

China’s A-shares have arrived at MSCI – which are favourites for investors?
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Less than a year after the Shanghai Stock Exchange launched with fits and starts in late 1991, the Chinese government began preparing to open the stock market to foreign capital. There were only eight A-share firms listed in Shanghai at the ...

Default setting

Why bond market risks are on the rise
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Two years, two very different endangered species. In late 2017, Chinese entrepreneur He Qiaonv pledged to give $1.5 billion of her fortune to protect some of China’s most fragile habitats and save the country’s vulnerable snow leopard ...

Strait to market

A mega IPO for Shanghai – from Taiwan
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

It is rare to see a Taiwanese company setting records in mainland China’s capital markets, but such is the case with Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII). Terry Gou’s company is about to launch the largest IPO of the past three years – ...

Will MSCI’s inclusion of A-shares be overshadowed by trade war tensions?
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

If US President Donald Trump really wants a full-blown trade war with China, Wall Street investors are not yet feeling the pinch. Take the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index closed at a record high of 26,616 on January 26 this year and ...

Gree skips dividend to make big chip investment
May 11, 2018 (WiC 408)

Will it be a case of third time lucky for Gree Electric’s Dong Mingzhu? China’s most famous businesswoman has not had much luck diversifying away from the company’s highly lucrative, but equally concentrated, business of selling air ...

Why a blockchain event in Macau has got widespread attention across China
May 4, 2018 (WiC 407)

Investors are sometimes a superstitious lot, so it was surprising that Hong Kong singer G.E.M. was rumoured to be performing her hit single Bubble at the World Block-chain Conference in Macau late last month. Featuring lyrics such as, “You ...

Calling on the reserves

Why Hong Kong’s dollar drop could signal a slowdown in city’s economy
Apr 27, 2018 (WiC 406)

During his 16-year tenure as head of thr Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Joseph Yam was the staunchest defender of Hong Kong’s currency peg to the US dollar. In fact, he was often mocked as a “one-trick pony” – as a man who just ...

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