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Attempts by Chinese policymakers and regulators to soothe the country's jittery markets with promises of financial market reforms and assurances the economy is stabilising had limited impact, with stocks tumbling in late trade. With U.S. markets closed for Labor Day, Sonia Legg looks at how European investors digest the implications of last week's U.S. jobs data on the timing of the first U.S. interest rate hike since 2006.
Shanghai (China), Sep 21 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Alex Plavevski). The Chinese real estate giant Evergrande, whose stock market crash in recent days has dragged stock markets around the planet, faces with uncertainty the interest payment of 84 million dollars (about 71.6 million euros) whose maturity is next Thursday.FOOTAGE FROM THE OFFICES OF CHINESE REAL ESTATE GIANT EVERGRANDE IN SHANGHAI, CHINA.
Beijing, Jun 17 (EFE/EPA).- Beijing will disinfect all the markets, restaurants and university campuses of the capital and will carry out coronavirus tests on its workers and managers, municipal health authorities announced today.The municipal spokesman, Xu Hejian, stated at a press conference that they will conduct "a comprehensive preventive inspection in all markets, restaurants and canteens," which will include carrying out nucleic acid tests.This measure is taken after the capital yesterday raised the health alert level from 3 to 2, after the outbreak of the virus in the capital's main market, which has already left 137 cases since last Thursday.Beijing has ALSO suspended interprovincial flights and transprovincial group travel, after raising its level of health emergency yesterday, although level 2 - in which the capital was just two weeks ago - does not imply that measure or other drastic measures being adopted . (Camera: ROMAN PILIPEY/WU HONG).SHOTLIST: MEASURES BEING CARRIED OUT AGAINST CORONAVIRUS IN BEIJING, CHINA, INCLUDING THE SECURITY DEPLOYMENT OUTSIDE THE MARKET WHERE THE OUTBREAK OCCURED; AND THE BEIJING CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
Liu Shiyi is in his first week as head of Chinese securities, an area he has no direct experience in. There's a weight of expectation on his shoulders as the country looks to Beijing after months of market turmoil. Graham Mackay reports.
Liu Shiyi is in his first week as head of Chinese securities, an area he has no direct experience in. There's a weight of expectation on his shoulders as the country looks to Beijing after months of market turmoil. Graham Mackay reports.