China's new Beijing Stock Exchange will launch on Monday and is poised to help boost fund-raising options for cash-starved smaller companies.
Environment Ministry says cumulative trading volumes hit 1 billion yuan ($156m) after the emissions trading scheme was set up in mid-July
News of the Evergrande payment helped buoy markets in China, while Tokyo, Singapore, Wellington, Jakarta and Bangkok were also in positive territory.
New Beijing stock exchange has approved applications from 10 companies to list shares next week, two months after President Xi Jinping announced the bourse for small and medium-sized firms
Supply chain snarls-ups and surging demand are pushing prices higher, worrying businesses and traders across the region
Sale comes three weeks after China raised $4 billion via a US dollar bond sale that drew robust demand
Group faces $148m in bond payments due on Wednesday and $255m due on Dec 28. Meanwhile, its EV unit says it plans to sell new shares to fund car production.
India’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.
US 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
Despite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
The 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.