Shanghai (AFP) – When Brazilian star Alexandre Pato jetted out of China for his holidays he played for Tianjin Quanjian. Two months and a dozen arrests later, the club as he knew it is gone.
In its place is a new incarnation, although whether...
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Shanghai (AFP) – Mousa Dembele became the latest high-profile name to swap Europe for China when he left English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur and joined Guangzhou R&F on Thursday.
The 31-year-old Belgian international will cost...
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Chinese mobile payment apps have surged in popularity. Could U.S. credit card companies compete?
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Another day, another attempt to buy the dip to make sure everything looks awesome...
Ugly China data sparked weakness in stocks (no bad news is good news here)...
European markets were not pretty...
US Equity futures were down...
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Apple buys 50 business-class seats every day from San Francisco to Shanghai, spending over $150 million a year on United Airlines.
That's according to a photo of a "confidential" United sign posted to Twitter.
Apple needs to fly its employees to...
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Earlier this week we asked if, just like in early 2016, a new "Shanghai Accord" was coming.
Implicitly responding to our rhetorical inquiry, Macquarie's Victor Shvets published a report titled "Shanghai redux & Benjamin Graham" in which he agrees...
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On Jan. 7, just outside Shanghai, Elon Musk broke ground for Tesla’s “Gigafactory 3.” Behind the stage where he made the announcement, there was nothing to see but a wet, muddy flat. By the end of the year, if all goes as Musk plans,...
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Over the weekend, when commenting on the latest rather disappointing RRR cut out of China (which would release just enough liquidity to offset liquidity drains via the MLP and repo) we pointed out another, far more important event which took place...
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Elon Musk was recently in Shanghai to break ground on Tesla's first factory site outside of the U.S.. According to reports, he was accompanied by the Mayor of Shanghai, Ying Yong, and Tesla China Executives, including the company's VP of...
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Tesla boss Elon Musk said the electric car-maker would break ground Monday on a Shanghai factory that will allow it to sell direct to Chinese consumers and avoid tariffs from the China-US trade war.
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There were a variety of catalysts behind Friday's "Jumbo"-sized, 747-point surge in the Dow, among which renewed trade talk optimism, a stronger than expected Chinese services PMI, a blockbuster jobs report, and of course Chairman Powell's dovish...
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Asian markets Friday continued the global sell-off triggered by Apple’s warning of lower revenues and futures indicators predict a sharply lower opening for U.S. markets.
The Tokyo market dropped 3 percent in morning trading, and markets in...
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Many Chinese cities, among them Ningbo, are investing heavily in AI and facial recognition technology. Uses range from border control — at Shanghai’s international airport and the border crossing with Macau — to the trivial:...
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We've seen some amazing gigapixel panoramas over the years, but this 195-gigapixel image of Shanghai is up there with the best of them. Like similar pictures, you can explore it by zooming in to see everything in amazing detail.
The post Check out...
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Shanghai (AFP) – Chinese football on Thursday imposed a salary cap of 10 million yuan ($1.45 million) a year for domestic players and vowed to kick teams out for so-called “yin-yang contracts”.
The swingeing measures are part of a...
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SHANGHAI, China — In no place was China’s growing obsession with electric cars more evident than inside the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai on Saturday night, where the Chinese electric automaker NIO unveiled its new crossover SUV,...
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Online food delivery app Deliveroo has opened its first brick-and-mortar location in Hong Kong, as reported by CNBC. In a press release, Deliveroo says the store will host five popular restaurants that will offer a variety of global dishes, like...
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The Grinch may have stolen Thanksgiving profits, but Christmas came early for markets with world stocks rising over one percent and pushing emerging currencies higher against the dollar, as S&P futures jumped as much as 2%...
... and the Shanghai...
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Trump better deliver...
China stocks eked out a modest gain on the week thanks to a late Friday liftathon ahead of this weekend's uncertainty...
But Shanghai Composite closed down on the month (2nd month lower in a row)
European...
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Shanghai (AFP) – Chinese national squads and a top league team have packed young footballers off to military camps for drills and Marxist-style “thought education” as a campaign to promote Communist Party values spreads even into...
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