Capital Markets

The outlook for Chinese listings

Gavin Ni, chief executive officer and president of Zero2IPO, talks on China's initial public offering environment in 2010.

A bubble, a banking crisis or a soft landing?

Inflation, surging asset prices, overcapacity, hidden local debts, non-performing loans and tightening liquidity. Is this a 'China bubble' about to burst?

Bank shares in 2010

To invest or not to invest in the 14 banks listed on China's A-share market?

The future of futures

What will the launch of newly approved stock index futures, margin trading and short selling products mean for the domestic stock market?

Farmers do better than urban 'mortgage slaves'

This year, Beijing will continue to push preferential policies for farmers while trying to stabilise property prices in major cities.

China cements status as world growth leader

Charlie Awdry, manager of Gartmore China Opportunities Fund, talks on China's rising influence in Asia and around the world.

China approves key financial reforms

China's cabinet has approved in principle the launch of stock index futures, margin trading and short selling demonstrating that financial market reforms have become a multi-year priority.

Consumption: the catchword of 2010

The government has pledged to focus on boosting consumer spending next year through driving urbanisation and continuing preferential tax initiatives.

Disintermediation driving bank profits

China's big state banks are moving away from plain vanilla lending to grow profits.

China to push financial market reforms in 2010

Nov 13 – China is set to ramp up the tempo of its financial reforms in 2010, taking concrete steps toward launching an International Board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and expanding a platform to facilitate the trading of complex derivatives, including ETF products. The moves will mark the start of an intensive implementation phase of Beijing’s plan to turn Shanghai into an international financial centre by 2020.We reaffirm our call (CC June 25th Forbidden City) that the financial centre scheme – which runs in parallel to efforts to internationalise the Renminbi – is set to make considerable progress in the coming five years.

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