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Signs are mounting that Chinese government is determined to launch the long-awaited real estate investment trusts (REITs) in a bid to spur the country's sagging housing market. However, it could take much longer time for the government to introduce the REITs, which provide an alternative for developers to raise money in the market, analysts said. Th...
The National Council for Social Security Fund (SSF) and China Development Bank Corp plan to invest 5 billion yuan ($730 million) to support important construction projects related to infrastructure and civil facilities, through trust companies. According to the agreement signed on Dec 25, SSF and CDB will involve five trust companies to support const...
China is considering introducing real estate investment trusts (REITs) to help increase financing channels for real estate developers, Qi Ji, vice-minister of the housing and urban-rural development, told a press conference Tuesday. The move would help the country's real estate developers raise money by means other than commercial bank loans, which are...
Major commodities kept an upward trend on Tuesday, with metals continuing a strong rise. Corn, however, dipped after a week-long price increase following an unprecedented large-volume state purchase. Corn contracts for May delivery closed 0.77 percent lower at 1,541 yuan (225.3 U.S. dollars) a ton in the Dalian Commodity Exchange. The price was still ...
There were 113,298 sale and purchase agreements for all types of building units registered in 2008 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Land Registry said on Tuesday. The figure is down 22.2 percent on 2007 but up 14.3 percent on 2006. The total consideration involved in these agreements was 413.11billion HK dollars (53.34 billion U.S. dollars), down 21.4 perc...
According to information released by the Bureau of Fair Trade for Imports and Exports of the Ministry of Commerce, in 2008 the US continued its previous momentum of launching frequent trade remedy investigations against Chinese products. The US launched five cases involving a combination of anti-dumping and countervailing investigations against C...
China's central bank said on Tuesday it plans to implement a pilot program of settling overseas trade with the Chinese currency instead of the U.S. dollar in 2009. According to a press release posted on the website of the People's Bank of China, the central bank will expand financial cooperation with overseas economies and properly deal with the ...
China's mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity remained resilient in 2008 despite the global financial meltdown, making it the best performer in the Asia region, according to information company Thomson Reuters. M&A activity in the country was at an all-time high of $159.6 billion worth of deals last year, 44 percent more than in 2007, compared with ...
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