Xi vents frustration toward trade war to Abe
10/27/2018, 9:48:33 PMJapanese leader walks tightrope balancing relations with Washington and Beijing ✔ Aside from two potential meetings next year, Abe invited Xi to attend the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics ✔ Ahead of Abe's visit, the Chinese side worried about how far he might go during the recently convened parliamentary session to revise Japan's pacifist constitution ✔ With nothing else on the agenda, the prime minister departed from Beijing Capital International Airport around 9:30 a.m. Saturday
Asian chip share rout provides strong indication of a tough 2019
10/28/2018, 10:44:02 AMSemiconductor industry braces for slowdown as trade war creates overhang ✔ The market could likely stay very volatile going into 2019 -- with a tough and challenging year ahead when there are few growth catalysts but plenty of uncertainty ✔ Now the overbooking issue is causing a problem as demand could very likely turn out to be weaker and the trade war uncertainties also bite, Pu said
Kazakhstan to double gas exports to China in 2019
10/28/2018, 4:24:20 AMTrade war and new infrastructure open door to send 10bn cu. meters ✔ A Chinese worker is seen during an inauguration ceremony for the Kazakh stretch of the Turkmenistan-China pipeline, outside Almaty ✔ At the same time, it aimed to turn itself into a transit hub and seize the chance to export gas to China, explained Sergey Smirnov, an Almaty-based independent oil and gas expert
Japan still sees ties with U.S. as 2nd to none amid thaw with China
10/27/2018, 9:32:34 PMWith Sino-U.S. tensions escalating amid a months-long trade war, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to China highlighted an improvement in bilateral relations, but Tokyo is unlikely to move away from Washington toward Beijing. Some foreign affairs experts in Beijing strongly believe that Japan should bolster political and economic ties… ✔ We will not curry favor with China only because we don't like Trump ✔ Abe visited Beijing from Thursday, bringing a large delegation of business leaders with him ✔ It was the first official trip to China by a Japanese prime minister primarily to hold formal bilateral talks with Chinese leaders since December 2011
Stocks sell-off dominates agenda for investors
10/28/2018, 1:01:18 PMundefined ✔ A significant increase in public spending could feed through into the issuance of UK government bonds, or gilts ✔ Indeed, analysts at NatWest Markets believe that the gilt issuance remit is unlikely to change significantly ✔ The challenges for theeuro have increased, she said
Don't expect miracles when Trump and Xi meet at G20
10/28/2018, 6:16:51 AMundefined ✔ A look at the speed of China's massive, state-driven infrastructure investments at home makes it hard to accept these disavowals ✔ Traveling in coastal Shandong Province, for example, you can see massive new construction of handsome high rise apartment buildings with stunning waterfront developments, walkways and malls, in attractive cities such as Yantai and Qingdao (first developed by Germans, who brought the beer industry with them) ✔ Her commentary was distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC
This landmark LNG deal will change energy geopolitics forever
10/28/2018, 6:42:10 AMChina’s LNG demand grew by a record 8 mt in 2017 and is set to expand by another record 12 mt this year, making up 50 percent of all global LNG demand growth, energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in a new report last week. ✔ CNPC holds a 20 percent stake in the Yamal project and has a contracted off-take volume of 3 million tons of LNG per year ✔ The paper said that as Western democracies turn increasingly inward under a backlash against globalization, the notion of a rising Sino-Russian partnership has garnered greater attention ✔ This article was originally published on Oilprice.com Trends: China newsGas news
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Trump celebrated the stock market surge in 2017, but he's been quiet about this year's decline
10/28/2018, 3:48:59 PMIn his second year, President Donald Trump has to grapple with an unknown: a stock market that has recently slipped, partly due to his own policies. ✔ Joshua Roberts | Reuters President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, October 17, 2018 ✔ Trump escalates attack on Fed 11:34 AM ET Wed, 24 Oct 2018 | 01:29 Days after Trump took office, he signed an executive order aiming to roll back regulations and stop the creation of new rules
Cyber Saturday: Roundup of Reader Reactions to Facebook's 'War Room'
10/27/2018, 9:12:15 PMYour weekend brief on code-makers and codebreakers. ✔ Facebook's war room Noah BergerAFP/Getty Images By Robert Hackett 5:02 PM EDT Last weekend’s newsletter, Facebook’s ‘War Room’ Is a Marketing Ploy, elicited mixed reactions ✔ Other readers felt I had been unfair to the company, arguing that it is taking the threat of fake news seriously ✔ He had a history of prior offenses and bomb threats
It’s still the rich what gets the treasure: governments ignore this at their peril
10/28/2018, 6:16:58 AMRising political instability and trade disputes are symptoms of the rampant disease of inequality, and rich men giving away their billions is not the answer ✔ Failure to do so will only add to the economic and political turbulence we are already witnessing ✔ But he is trying to turn an oil tanker when he needs it to be a speedboat ✔ His multi-year estimate may be right: the question is whether investors will give him that long
Brexit, bitcoin and marijuana — Martin Wolf answers readers’ questions
10/28/2018, 12:10:48 PMundefined ✔ Plus questions on Brexit, the state of China’s economy and ways to thwart the appeal of populism ✔ The Chinese government has the tools to maintain growth in demand if it needs to do so ✔ Two decades ago, I was so much more optimistic about the future of Brazil, despite all its obvious problems
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