Chinese Market

The world's second-largest equities market has lost $3.5 trillion in value from a peak in May, data compiled by Bloomberg show

The Ascend 960 chips are expected to be commercially available in 2027 as Huawei seeks to expand its AI hardware footprint despite US export restrictions

Shein has secured approval from China's securities regulator for its planned Hong Kong IPO after earlier listing attempts in the US and London failed

Going ahead, analysts believe the probability of another year of relative underperformance remains high, unless earnings improve meaningfully, crude stabilises, and foreign flows return

China's earnings season is already shaping up as a disappointment. Fourth-quarter pre-announcements from more than 2,000 mainland-listed A-share companies show negative alerts outnumber positive ones

The Shanghai exchange unveiled an internationalisation plan last May, which included a proposal to allow overseas investors to post foreign exchange as collateral for yuan-denominated trades

Weak spending behaviour has become more common in China as households worry about income stability and falling asset values

Close to 5 billion people travelled in the first three quarters of 2025, an 18 per cent jump from last year

Starbucks announced on Tuesday that it will sell a majority stake in its China retail operations, which are valued at $4 billion

Iron Pillar sees manufacturing and AI as India's next big opportunities, citing global trade tensions, supply chain shifts and the need for industrial self-reliance

Work vehicles have tended to fly below the radar in discussions of urban emissions, but their vast size and power requirements give them a disproportionate share of engine pollution

The stressed real estate sector, a key driver of the economy, has not yet stabilised

On a year-on-year basis, new home prices fell 4.8 per cent versus a 5.0 per cent drop the previous month

Surge in orders underlines Nvidia's dominance of the market and could help alleviate concerns that DeepSeek might cause a slide in AI chip demand

Indian investors will have to be patient as FII inflows are not expected in the short to medium term. However, long-term view is intact

Integration of the DeepSeek-R1 model into TigerGPT follows DeepSeek's meteoric rise which stunned Silicon Valley and triggered a rally in Chinese tech shares on bets of an AI revolution

China is well aware that innovation is the key driver for productivity growth. Xi has continuously pushed for "new productive forces" amid the US curbs on high-end chips to China

Stock Market Highlights on February 5, 2025: Broader markets outperformed the benchmarks, with small-cap shares leading the charge, as the Nifty Smallcap100 index ended higher by 1.85 per cent

The big moves in Chinese stocks helped lift MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan up 0.11 per cent, reversing its losses from earlier in the sesion

US tech giant shipped 13.1 million units in China during the period, narrowly maintaining its market lead with a 17 per cent share, according to Canalys data released on Thursday