China is stepping up its policing of international companies such as Inditex SA-owned Zara and Delta Air Lines Inc. and demanding they respect the government's position on long-standing territorial disputes from Taiwan to Tibet. The Cyber Administration Office in Shanghai on Friday said Zara listed
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The U.K.'s exit from the European Union will probably mean some sort of customs checks will return to the Irish border, despite Theresa May's assurances, a Fitch Ratings Ltd. unit said. In an effort to unlock divorce negotiations, May last month guaranteed no hard border will re-emerge on the island of
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Hong Kong is forecast to see a revival in new listings this year, after fundraising from first-time share sales fell to a five-year low of $16.5 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The city is expected to host 150 IPOs in 2018, headlined by some significant technology offerings, Benson Wong, a partner
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The struggle for an immigration deal is intensifying after President Donald Trump rejected a bipartisan compromise proposal and questioned why the U.S. accepts immigrants from “shithole countries.” The debate is turning into a three-way skirmish, as a small group of senators offered the compromise
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Then again, Bloomberg News reports that early trading for this new issue saw Tencent's bond prices rise — and thus yields tighten — which is to be expected, since companies like to sell at a rate that gives a certain amount of upside. We see this often in equity markets, when a share price spikes post-IPO
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