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Business

Banks’ reluctance to lend deepening Hong Kong shop slump: landlords

Pressing owners to repay loans amid falling values while turning away new buyers could prolong wider economic drag, advocacy group says.

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Market squeeze: Tesla revives China price cuts to stem slumping deliveries

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China’s capital injection a first step to easing financial strains: analysts

Banking & Finance

China’s capital injection steels banks, insurers for rough road ahead

US$54 billion recapitalisation comes amid squeeze on commercial banks’ earnings and push for insurers to bolster the liquidity of Chinese stock markets.

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Business

Chinese firms’ green-tech expansion hinges on Hong Kong: bankers

Offshore yuan liquidity makes city a ‘superconnector’, but finding projects with strong returns is now the challenge, senior bankers say.

Banking & Finance

China’s brokers expected to continue robust performance with mega IPO offering

Active A-share market trading boosts investment firms’ top line by 50%, as mega IPOs predicted to fuel underwriting and sponsorship growth.

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China EVs

Why are EV battery makers’ profits nearly double that of industry’s carmakers?

Leading electric vehicle battery makers’ profits by far outpace the industry’s carmakers in first half.

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An advertisement for CATL is displayed on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai on July 14. Photo: Getty Images
An advertisement for CATL is displayed on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai on July 14. Photo: Getty Images

China Business

Bullish chorus grows: Wall Street backs gold despite US job growth, hawkish Fed

Record buying spree by central banks offsets Fed tightening fears, pushing gold towards US$5,000 by year-end, investment banks forecast.

Banking & Finance

Transition boost: new platform funds emerging-market clean energy upgrades

World may need up to US$20 trillion over five to eight years to build or upgrade renewable energy facilities, HSBC executive says.

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Tech Trends

How generative AI helps SenseTime turn a profit even as Chinese peers struggle

The AI firm has managed to become profitable by carving out a niche involving one-person firms and productivity tools, company executives say.

The SenseTime headquarters at Science Park in Tai Po. Photo: Sam Tsang

China Business

In Focus | China’s EV makers see synergy in their race to beat Tesla in humanoid robotics

Robotics has supply chain synergy with smart EV production because key components like cameras and radar, as well as software, are in both.

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Illustration: Dennis Yip

Banking & Finance

Hong Kong has yuan to spare. Can it create more global demand?

Regulators want banks to channel more offshore yuan into global markets, as the city pushes to deepen the currency’s role in international finance.

China Business

Standard Chartered doubles down on China wealth opportunities despite tax pivot

Lender says it plans to add more luxury wealth centres, hire more talent and invest in technology platforms in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan.

China Business

Green lift: Hong Kong widens finance taxonomy to spur transition capital

As Green Week kicks off, the HKMA expands its finance taxonomy to channel capital into projects that build climate resilience.

The transport sector is a key focus of Hong Kong’s newly expanded sustainable finance framework. Photo: Jelly Tse

Banking & Finance

China pumps massive US$54b into insurers, banks in financial powerhouse push

The rare capital boost of such magnitude seeks to shore up insurers and banks as solvency pressures mount and regulatory demands loom.

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A general view of the Ministry of Finance in Beijing, China. Photo: Getty Images
A general view of the Ministry of Finance in Beijing, China. Photo: Getty Images

Big Tech

Why China’s AI giants spend far less and still shrink compute gap with US rivals

Lower costs and faster growth rates let China’s AI firms narrow the divide, raising the question: does the spending gap still matter?

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Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law chip overcomes overheating hurdle, paper shows

The research directly counters claims that vertical stacking creates a thermal bottleneck, the tech giant’s paper says.

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China Business

China’s drug makers are speeding up – will AI be their secret weapon?

Chinese biotech firms are striking big global deals as drug makers, but could artificial intelligence take them to the next level?

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Markets

Can Hong Kong’s listing reform 2.0 win over innovative firms?

The reforms enhance the city’s appeal for AI, biotech and other firms by slashing the market cap threshold and enabling confidential filings.

Big Tech

Competition or ‘co-opetition’: how is convergence shaping Sino-US AI race?

Speech by CEO of Chinese AI start-up at Nvidia event in US highlights symbiotic nature of tech relationship despite geopolitical tensions.

China EVs

How China’s EV makers think they can outrun disastrous price wars

At Beijing’s urging, an industry largely built on discounting must hold the line on prices and convince buyers to pay for better technology.

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OPINION
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Macroscope | Japan isn’t the only Asian economy giving bond markets a headache

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Opinion | Chinese treasury futures launch cements Hong Kong as premier yuan hub

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Opinion | Just like with the yen, America cannot save the AI bubble

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Opinion | Beijing’s offshore insurance tax tests Hong Kong wealth management

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Macroscope | US efforts to prop up the yen risk doing more harm than good

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