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Cryptocurrencies slid across the board amid rekindled fears of heated inflation and aggressive US Federal Reserve policy tightening
The ETF was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Friday with assets under management of 252 million yuan ($40 million)
Evergrande seeks more financial and legal advisers, while Country Garden surprised with a new issue of $500 million in convertible bonds, after a similar attempt failed last week
The second SPAC to debut in the city-state raised S$170 million ($126 million) and plans to invest in tech-enabled sectors
Beijing says efforts will be made to investigate and punish the corrupt behaviour behind the disorderly expansion of capital and platform monopolies
Move by Serbia comes as it approaches an election, and as ties between Belgrade and Canberra sour after Sunday's high-profile deportation of Novak Djokovic
The Fed stressed it is not signalling any 'decisions about the appropriateness of issuing a US CBDC' while the Bank of Russia sought a crackdown on transactions and mining
The two bourses signed a MoU in December to develop a connection allowing investors in Singapore and China to access feeder ETFs
Investors should favour stocks in the MSCI China and MSCI Hong Kong indices over global benchmarks, BCA Research analysts said
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index surged more than 3% thanks to tech giants including Alibaba, Tencent and JD.com, while property firms like China Evergrande also gained
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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Oil & GasIndia Is Likely Exporting Refined Russian Oil to the WestIndia’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
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MarketsApple Asks Suppliers in Taiwan to Meet China Label StandardsUS tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
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MarketsIndian-Owned Tech Firms See Sharp Growth in UKDespite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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