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King Digital is crushed by poor quarter results
August 13th, 2014
Candy Crush maker King Digital entertainment yesterday announced poor second-quarter revenue, sending its share price crashing by 21 per cent in after-hours trading. This was the UK-based, but New York-listed company’s second quarterly report as a public company since its ...
Iran sidesteps oil sanctions
August 13th, 2014
Iran is looking to export increasing amounts of oil to China and Asian markets by finding a way to sidestep Western sanctions. This will expand the value of its trade by potentially billions of dollars a year. In doing ...
Chinese developer Wanda launches $1.7bn Australian arm
August 12th, 2014
One of China’s biggest developers will launch an Australian arm with $1.7 billion in capital to splash into the nation’s real estate market. In an announcement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today, the Wanda Group revealed it would ...
Bank sued Ex-Deutsche head for $6.3m
August 12th, 2014
Former China head of Deutsche Bank, Lee Zhang, was sued in Hong Kong by the firm over the 2001 transfer of $3.99m to the account of a firm with a bank in Shenzhen. Bloomberg News reports that the bank ...
British investigator Humphrey linked to GSK was jailed
August 11th, 2014
The Shanghai court sentenced a British company investigator to two-and-a-half years and his wife to two years in jail, for trafficking personal data in China. The british investigator, Mr Peter Humphrey, was hired by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) China, which is ...
Asia stocks rose on Wall St. rally, dollar firm after rebound
August 11th, 2014
Asian stocks rose on Monday as tensions eased slightly in Ukraine, while the dollar held steady against the safe-haven yen after rebounding sharply late last week. Spreadbetters expected the upbeat momentum for equities to continue into Europe, with Britain’s ...
Foreign Firms under Chinese antitrust law
August 11th, 2014
It was only last month that 100 antitrust investigators probe simultaneously into four of Microsoft’s offices across China, executing “surprise visits” where the vice president and other managers were interrogated and data was collected. It appears that Chinese regulators ...
The Global Economy’s Groundhog Day
August 8th, 2014
In the movie “Groundhog Day,” a television weatherman, played by Bill Murray, awakes every morning at 6:00 to relive the same day. A similar sense of déjà vu has pervaded economic forecasting since the global economic crisis began a ...
Chinese banks get serious – risk of bad debts swell
August 8th, 2014
Chinese banks are scrambling to get on top of bad debts they have downplayed for years, cutting off riskier borrowers and further tightening lending terms. China’s banks keep reporting bad loan levels well below what most analysts consider realistic, ...
Asian shares skid as Obama confirms air strikes on Iraq
August 8th, 2014
Asian shares tumbled on Friday as investors sought out safe-haven assets on growing fears that conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East could sap global growth, extending losses after U.S. President Obama said he had authorized air strikes in ...
