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$37.5-billion yuan bond boost to Hubei Province
$37.5-billion yuan bond boost to Hubei Province

(ATF) Hard-hit Hubei Province has special bonds worth some 261-billion yuan ($37.5 billion) ‘in place’ for urban development,...

Zoom to stop direct sales in China
Zoom to stop direct sales in China

(ATF) Zoom, the video conferencing software group, said on its official Chinese website on August 3 that it will...

Gold hits another record as investors turn defensive
Gold hits another record as investors turn defensive

(ATF) Asian markets are defensive as Republicans and Democrats continue to have differences over a new US virus relief...

Gold resumes climb as US dollar struggles
US-China tensions keep investors on edge
China’s futures trading continues expansion
PBoC pledges continued internationalisation of financial industry
That sinking feeling
China says state pensions to increase
China accuses US of ‘outright bullying’ over TikTok

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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