November 21, 2024
Financial Assets

Wasted Money & Sunken Assets: Subsidies and Financing for Fossil Fuels

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed

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Financial Assets

Shenzhen issues local gov’t bonds in Hong Kong

Shenzhen City in China’s Guangdong Province issued offshore renminbi local government bonds in Hong Kong Thursday evening, the fourth time since 2021. The issue size of the bonds stands at 7 billion yuan (around 980 million U.S. dollars), with maturities of two years, three years, five years and 10 years, and the bulk being social

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Financial Assets

China central bank says it will increase treasury bond trading

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank will seek to “enrich” its monetary policy toolbox and will gradually increase buying and selling of treasury bonds in its open market operations, its second-quarter monetary policy implementation report said on Friday. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will also seek to steadily lower companies’ financing and household credit

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Fixed Assets

China’s fixed-asset investment maintains stable growth in H1-Xinhua

This aerial drone photo taken on July 10, 2024 shows the construction site of the Zhongning converter station in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng) BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) — China’s fixed-asset investment continued stable growth in the first half of 2024, with high-tech sectors witnessing a robust capital influx, data from the

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Intangible Assets

China wrestles with ‘quantity over quality’ in generative AI patents | Technology

China has emerged as the world’s top producer of generative AI patents, but it is struggling to turn many of its ideas into action thanks to US export controls and longstanding struggles with its innovation culture at home. In July, the UN’s intellectual property agency reported that China had filed more than 38,000 generative AI

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Financial Assets

Bonds leap amid crypto tailspin

Cryptocurrency ATMs in Hong Kong. BLOOMBERG Bitcoin and ether dived yesterday to multi-month lows as worries over a possible US recession in the wake of soft data gripped financial markets while US Treasuries were among the day’s winners as investors rushed to safe-haven assets. Bitcoin plunged 13 percent to US$51,560 (HK$401,282) at one time,

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Financial Assets

Guangdong to join ‘dim sum’ bond feast with US$1 billion sale in Hong Kong, Macau

The sale of the yuan-denominated offshore bonds, also known as dim sum bonds, comes on the heels of Shenzhen’s announcement on Monday of its fourth such issuance, worth up to 7 billion yuan. The latest Shenzhen bond offering will include a tranche with a 10-year tenure, while also matching the two-, three- and five-year tranches

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