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In China’s current economic travails, US and other Group of Seven nations increasingly see evidence of deep-seated structural problems that ultimately will strengthen the West’s hand against a weakening geopolitical competitor. The view emerging from officials in Washington, Rome, Tokyo and other capitals, who spoke with Bloomberg News mostly on condition of anonymity in recent days, is that the dominant economic narrative that has guided the flows of capital around the globe for decades is flipping fast.

By Engen Tham, Julie Zhu and Clare Jim

By Xie Yu, Clare Jim and Li Gu

A digital asset company called Prometheum Ember Capital LLC has recently gained attention for being named the first Special Purpose Broker-Dealer (SPBD) for digital assets. Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee have expressed reservations about this decision, leading them to  ask   the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for explanation.

Nifty settled lower on the last day of August on Thursday, tracking weak global cues, while investors awaited India's gross domestic product (GDP) data for the April-June quarter of current fiscal (2023-2024) which is expected later today. India's GDP likely moved up to 7.7 per cent in the first quarter, recording the fastest annual pace in a year, supported by robust government capital expenditure and a strong services sector. However, some economists and rating agencies expect India's Q1 GDP print to beat the 8 per cent forecast of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

Asian stock markets are mostly lower after Japanese factory activity and Chinese service industry growth weakened

Reuters. China Railway has suspended several major train lines and Shanghai halted trains heading to Guangdong, according to local media.

Oppenheimer' has made its official debut in China, generating an estimated $5.4 million in box office revenue. Impressively, the film has garnered strong positive word of mouth, boasting a remarkable audience score of 9.5 on the Maoyan platform.

Chedun, a working-class neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of Shanghai, the signs of an anemic economy are all around. The factories that once drew workers from around the country have moved away. Those that remain have slashed wages. Around the affordable eateries and motley shops where workers once crowded, employees eagerly latch onto anyone passing by. “No one has money now, it’s obvious,” Cherry Qian, 25, said as she sat inside the electronics store she manages. But there’s one place the slump isn’t as obvious: in the government’s account of it. A gulf has emerged between the Chinese economy as many Chinese are experiencing it, and Beijing’s narrative of it — and that gulf is only widening. For many ordinary Chinese, one of the worst economic slowdowns the country has faced in decades has translated into widespread pessiYouth at a job fair in Wuhan mism and resignation. But state media and officials continue to declare that any challenges are blips. Concerns about the economy, propaganda outlets have insisted, have been inflated by Western politicians and media outlets engaged in “cognitive warfare.” One social media account backed by China’s state broadcaster released a video that purported to investigate how foreign news outlets had cherry-picked statistics that predicted higher economic growth, just so they could later say China fell short. When the reality has proved too inconvenient, another approach has simply been to conceal it, as when Beijing this month stopped publishing the youth unemployment rate, which had been at a record high.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says she warned Chinese leaders that U.S. businesses might stop investing in their country without prompt action to address complaints about worsening conditions due to raids on firms, unexplained fines and unpredictabl...

Global shares are mostly trading higher, boosted by a Wall Street rally that came on positive reports on consumer confidence and job openings

BEIJING — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has called on China to improve the predictability of the business environment for American companies in the country.

Asian shares are trading higher, boosted by a Wall Street rally that came on positive reports on consumer confidence and job openings

BEIJING — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has left Beijing with a few deliverables: plans for formal discussions on export controls and tourism.

China for computer chips, solar panels and various consumer imports amid growing concern over Beijing's security threats, human rights record and dominance of critical industries. But even as policymakers and corporate executives look for ways to cut ties with China, a growing body of evidence suggests that the world's largest economies remain deeply intertwined as Chinese products make their way to America through other countries. New and forthcoming economic papers call into question whether the United States has actually lessened its reliance on China — and what a recent reshuffling of trade relationships means for the global economy and American consumers. Changes to global manufacturing and supply chains are still unfolding, as both punishing tariffs imposed by the administration of former President Donald Trump and tougher restrictions on the sale of technology to China imposed by the Biden administration play out. The key architect of the latest restrictions — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo — is meeting with top Chinese officials in Beijing and Shanghai this week, a visit that underscores the challenge facing the United States as it seeks to reduce how much it depends on China at a moment when the countries' economies share so many ties. These reworked trade rules, along with other economic changes, have caused China's share of imports into the United States to fall as the share of imports into the U.S.

Raimondo said U.S. firms had told her that China had become «uninvestible.» Asked to respond to the comments Raimondo made in China, embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said that most of the 70,000 U.S.

Day trading guide for today: Domestic equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty settled higher in the previous session supported by gains in select heavyweights, including HDFC Bank, Tata Steel amid positive global cues. In Asian markets, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong ended with gains. European markets were trading in the green.

News headlines have recently covered how China's struggling economy poses significant risk to global growth. Economic activity and the flow of credit in the region are weakening and analysts are not convinced that the Chinese government’s interventions are a sufficient fix for what appear to be structural problems. 

₹305 crore during the session. As per the NSE data, FIIs cumulatively bought ₹10,515.8 crore of Indian equities, while they sold ₹10,453.97 crore --- resulting in an inflow of ₹61.51 crore. Meanwhile, DIIs infused ₹8,131.87 crore and offloaded ₹7,826.78 crore, registering an inflow of ₹305.09 crore.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia will be unable to attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi, the Kremlin announced last week. This came after Russia’s longtime leader also skipped the BRICS Summit in South Africa. Putin will also skip the East Asia Summit in Jakarta, which will see Prime Minister Narendra Modi participate.

China will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test result for incoming travelers, a milestone in its reopening to the rest of the world after an isolation that began with the country's borders closing in 2020