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This week: PMI, trade data, central bank decisions
This week: PMI, trade data, central bank decisions

(ATF) Economic events

Financial markets will remain cautious in August, as safe havens gold and US Treasuries made spectacular gains...

China stocks outperform, gold has support
China stocks outperform, gold has support

(ATF) Hong Kong: Mainland Chinese stocks advanced, outperforming the Asia Pacific region after data showed the world’s second largest...

‘Hydrogen Valley’ set to boom
‘Hydrogen Valley’ set to boom

(ATF) Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, announced Thursday that its hydrogen energy industry is...

US tanks, China grows and their currencies show it
China weighs antitrust probe into Alipay, WeChat Pay
Investors cheer as China rebound sustained
China Hukou reform badly needed to meet new infrastructure plans
Tencent to buy China’s no-2 search engine
HK-US dollar peg assailable only at large cost to greenback
China’s economic recovery looks squiggle-shaped

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

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