The Shanghai Stock Exchange’s year-old STAR Market has outperformed similar markets and is set to host one of the biggest-ever IPOs. We introduce you to the new exchange and its companies.
Ant Group, China’s financial technology behemoth and the world’s most valuable private company, this week filed for a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The move represents a coup for the mainland’s stock markets. The IPO, which will take place on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and a new Shanghai Stock Exchange board called the STAR Market, could raise as much as $30 billion and value Ant at more than $200 billion.
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For much of the past two decades, Europe's luxury market has counted on the ferocious appetite of Chinese consumers to bolster its bottom line. But foreign luxury brands are facing a reckoning in China. Not only is China’s economy entering a more uncertain phase, giving consumers pause, but homegrown designers and labels are also gaining ground. The questions now are which European brands can still rely on China, and how China's domestic designers can capture a share of the pie.
The Treasury’s top international official gives an inside-the-room account of the latest talks between Treasury Secretary Yellen and the Chinese leadership, including the U.S.’s efforts to get Beijing to address overcapacity and economic imbalances, how...
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