🔒 Financial Times perspective: China locks down Shenzhen as it battles biggest Covid-19 surge
China is battling its biggest Covid surge since the start of the pandemic and has locked down multiple cities including Shenzhen, its technology hub.
China is battling its biggest Covid surge since the start of the pandemic and has locked down multiple cities including Shenzhen, its technology hub.
Tuesday the 15th of March is the final day of the National State of Disaster. I can say that because technically it’s correct, for the time being.
Nanjing, a Chinese city of 8m souls best known globally for Japanese atrocities in 1937, posted residential property price growth of 41.1% last year.
The Shanghai Composite Index fell as much as 8.2% while a gauge of mainland China stocks in Hong Kong tumbled 5.1% after entering a bear market Tuesday.
Before we turn our backs on all ETFs, remember that the cassette tape, VHS and Betamax video players also served a purpose. We understood what it was. And then we all moved on.
Tencent shares rose to a new high, valuing the company at around half South Africa’s annual GDP, pushing Naspers’s stake to R680bn, 95% of its market cap.
Steinhoff’s R63bn acquisition of Pepkor today ranks as the biggest transaction in South African corporate history. But for CEO Markus Jooste it is just the start of a exciting new international chapter for what will be a R200bn group.
WeChat tapping into a hidden US user base to attack WhatsApp in its heartland. There is much at stake in the technology sector, outsided rewards accrue with market leadership
China’s leadership and central bank are ready to cut interest rates again and loosen lending restrictions – falling prices could trigger a surge in debt defaults
Chinese police seized a dozen supercars including Ferraris and McLarens and detained a group of middle-aged street racers from Hong Kong.