The 19th China Harbin International Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation began on Sunday and will last until Thursday in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang province. The annual event promotes technological and economic cooperation with other countries and helps revitalize China's northeastern industries, organizers said. Over the p...
When the Sino-US Strategic Economic Dialogue was launched in 2006, the biannual talks co-chaired by the then Vice-Premier Wu Yi and US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was expected to address long-term issues. Narrowing China's trade surplus with the US was among the core issues then. This year, however, as Paulson meets the new Vice-Premier Wang Qisha...
SHANGHAI: Chinese companies with large investments in Vietnam are complying with the stock exchange's requirement to report their real and potential risk exposure in the economically troubled country. Chengdu-based New Hope Agriculture Stock Co, which owns four businesses in Vietnam, was among the first Chinese groups to declare the extent of its risks...
Rolls-Royce, the world's leading provider of power systems will design and equip one of the world's most advanced seismic research vessels for China, the company said on Monday. The 26 million U.S. dollar contract is its first such contract in the important Chinese market for offshore seismic vessels. The seismic streamer vessel has been ordered b...
Online Chinese shoppers spent 16.2 billion yuan (2.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 19 major cities in the first half of 2008, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said on Monday. The findings were based on a survey carried out in four municipalities directly under the central government -- Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing -- and 15 dev...
Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, has acknowledged that alternative trading venues are a global trend with which individual regulators need to engage. At the same time, he warned that the increase in electronic trading would not necessarily benefit the trading community as a whole, citing a prediction tha...
BATS Trading Europe, a pan-European multilateral trading facility scheduled to launch this year, will use Fortis’s European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF) to clear its trades. EMCF made its debut as the clearing facility for Chi-X, a multilateral clearing facility (MTF) launched in 2007. This is a key milestone in our 2008 launch programme in E...
Exchange-traded funds will be available to trade on pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe from 6 June. ETFs allow traders to participate in whole indices and market segments in one transaction. Five ETFs from iShares, a division of Barclays Global Investors, will be available on Chi-X from the launch of the service. These are: iShare...
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