Category: CFAA Spotlight

The U.S. interest rate is currently in a range of 2 to 2.25 percent, but the Fed has signaled it wants to gradually raise rates in the coming months to 3 percent or slightly higher. China’s suggestion: Trump may get Huawei if worries about iPhone eavesdroppers persist U.S. companies in India have been increasingly battling Modi’s policies…

Shares in Asia stumbled in early trade on Monday as investors waited with bated breath as China’s markets prepare to reopen following a week-long holiday and after its central bank cut banks’ reserve requirements in a bid to support growth. The cannabis industry is expected to experience powerful growth — and that’s before one factors in the legalization…

Most successful fintech firms have focused on narrow functions or segments with high friction levels or those underserved by traditional financial institutions The deal gives Coke a large brick-and-mortar retail presence and puts it in direct competition with Starbucks Corp. Mr. Ma signaled he was thinking about focusing more on philanthropy. Elon Musk is hurting…

Kai-Fu Lee’s perspectives on two global leaders in artificial intelligence: China and the United States Apple has become the first US company with a market cap of over $1 trillion. The role of Starbucks is to provide a testing ground for implementation of the solutions that will be connected to the conversion of digital assets to…

Can China A Share Issuers Adapt To ESG Realities? How did one single tech company take center stage within the two countries’ trade negotiations over $500 billion of imports and exports in the first place Potential cooperation among major Asian economies in establishing an “oil buyers’ club” will bring significant challenge to OPEC When it comes to what Amazon…

G7 summit: War of words erupts between US and key allies For a large conservative financial firm, Fidelity was early to realize the potentially transformative impact of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in general. In a landmark move, index provider MSCI on Friday included more than 230 Chinese stocks, known as A-shares, in its emerging market indexes. Trump and Kim Arrive…

Harvest Global Investments becomes first Chinese asset manager to partner with eVestment The winners and losers in a U.S.–China trade war Warning them of a wind change that would bring rising levels of sulfur dioxide gas, which can be fatal if inhaled in large quantities Among funds that lost money was Silver 8 Partners. It dropped 25…

Brewing US-China trade war spooks asset managers. China’s world-class tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent, have market values of around $500bn, rivalling Facebook’s. China has the largest online-payments market. Its equipment is being exported across the world. It has the fastest supercomputer. It is building the world’s most lavish quantum-computing research centre. Because the China A-Share market is uncorrelated, under-researched, and…

China’s crackdown on debt has slammed the country’s nascent hedge fund industry The argument in favor of the tariffs is that they are a counterweight against foreign producers of aluminum and steel that have flooded the U.S. market, putting American companies at a disadvantage. However, the decision may put regions and states at an economic disadvantage, in…

Despite the upheaval, some investors say the stock rally is merely pausing after a strong run whose scale and pace has taken many by surprise. Investors believe size of correction will depend on interest rate pain. The Market’s Biggest Risk? Millennial Traders Who Have Never Seen A Crash. “This could make the whole Trump administration initiative to go back to…