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Fidelity cleared to open its own China mutual fund business

China’s top securities regulator approved Fidelity International on Friday to set up a wholly owned mutual fund business, making the US company the second global asset manager after BlackRock to tap into the country’s fast-growing wealth market, reported Caixin. The new company, to be based in Shanghai with $30 million of registered capital, is 100% controlled by […]

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US warned Brazil that Huawei would leave it ‘high and dry’ on 5G

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan raised concerns about Huawei equipment in Brazil’s 5G telecoms network during his visit to the country last week, a White House official said on Monday, but Brazil made no promises about whether it would use products from the Chinese company, reported Reuters. The National Security Council’s senior director for […]

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China and EU ties on a knife-edge as German chancellor says long goodbye

As Angela Merkel’s leadership of Germany heads into its final weeks, jostling is under way inside and outside the European Union to shape its future relations with China, reported the South China Morning Post. Her farewell tour featured a trip to Washington, a series of high-level summits with Western allies, and multiple meetings with top level American […]

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Wall Street investment banks cut China forecasts

Wall Street banks Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley all cut their China growth forecasts on Monday after the country reported lower than expected import and export numbers and on concerns that the resurgent coronavirus would crimp economic activity, reported Reuters. JPMorgan reduced its quarter-on-quarter growth estimate for the third quarter to 2.0% from 4.3% and trimmed […]

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China’s economics risks build, with factory inflation surging again

China’s factory inflation surged again in July, following a short-lived retreat in the previous month, as commodity prices remained high despite the government’s steps to rein in costs, reported Bloomberg. The producer price index grew 9% in July from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday, quickening from 8.8% in the previous […]