China has doubled down on efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in its semiconductor industry by creating the country’s largest-ever chip investment fund, disregarding mounting pressure from US tech sanctions and a track record of corruption in these state-led programmes. The third phase of the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, also known as the “Big Fund”, was established last Friday with a registered […]
Hong Kong-based credit investment firm SC Lowy is raising a private debt fund with a target size of up to US$800 million, nearly eight times larger than its first one. The move shows financial institutions such as SC Lowy are betting on the flourishing private debt market – in which credit is neither extended by a traditional […]
May 28 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase is in close contact with local officials after a building explosion in Youngstown, Ohio, a bank spokesperson said in response to questions after a video of the purported blast was posted on X. The company is checking on the safety of people in the building and area, the spokesperson […]
May 28 (Reuters) – Meme stock GameStop (GME.N), opens new tab soared nearly 20% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the struggling videogame retailer said it had raised over $900 million from selling its shares during the market rally earlier this month. GameStop surged as much as nearly six times its value in the first two weeks of May, partly fueled […]
China is doubling down on its plan to dominate advanced technologies of the future by setting up its largest-ever semiconductor state investment fund, according to information posted by a government-run agency. Worth $47.5 billion, the fund is being created as the US imposes sweeping restrictions on the export of American chips and chip technology in a bid to throttle Beijing’s ambitions. […]
Inter Milan president Steven Zhang said the Serie A champions’ financial stability was being threatened by investment fund Oaktree as owners Suning scrambled to repay a debt of almost 400 million euros on Tuesday. Simone Inzaghi’s Inter team were officially crowned kings of Italy on Sunday following a 1-1 draw with Lazio after securing the […]
BERLIN, May 27 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and France’s President Emmanuel Macron warned in a joint opinion piece for the Financial Times that the European Union had to make dramatic efforts to improve its competitiveness or risk seeing its way of living undermined. Among the reforms needed were further efforts to decarbonize the […]
BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) – China’s latest steps to revive its struggling property market could pose risks to banks operating in lower-tier cities, S&P Global said on Monday. The measures announced earlier this month such as cutting down payment requirements and removing the floor for mortgage rates are expected to temporarily increase property demand, but the increased […]
ALO 5.00%increase; green up pointing triangle is to raise of about 1 billion euros ($1.08 billion) in share capital as its works to reduce its debt levels. The French train maker said Monday that under rights issue, shareholders are entitled to received one preferential subscription right, with five rights enabling holders to subscribe for one new share, […]
STRESA, Italy, May 25 (Reuters) – G7 finance leaders will call on Israel to maintain correspondent banking links between Israeli and Palestinian banks to allow vital transactions, trade and services to continue, according to a draft joint statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The statement, to be released at the end of a Group of […]