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New regulator pledges transparency as China works to prevent investor exodus

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9 months ago

February 20, 2024

New regulator pledges transparency as China works to prevent investor exodus

China’s new financial regulator has made fresh pledges to increase regulatory transparency, stability and predictability, the latest of several attempts to restore investor confidence following a stock meltdown and high-profile personnel changes.

The country will benchmark its financial policies against international rules and reduce restrictive measures to make itself more open and integrated with the global market, the Communist Party’s newly created Central Financial Commission (CFC) said in an article published by People’s Daily, the party’s press organ, on Tuesday.

“[We’ll] strengthen the interconnection of domestic and overseas financial markets and better facilitate cross-border investment and financing,” the commission said in its article, which detailed how to make China a “financial superpower”.

These signals are being sent at a time when foreign investors, including greenfield capital and portfolio holders, are hesitant to decide their next move and worried over the future of China’s policy choices.

The world’s second-biggest economy achieved 5.2 per cent gross domestic product growth in 2023, but market sentiment has remained low thanks to a protracted property industry slump, beleaguered employment figures and ballooning debts held by local governments.

Foreign investors have turned to other markets in the past year amid these factors and heightened geopolitical tensions, pushing the country’s annual net receipt of foreign direct investment (FDI) to a 30-year low in 2023.

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According to data released by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Sunday, direct investment liabilities – a measure of both FDI inflows and outflows – rose by US$33 billion last year over 2022. This was a drop of 82 per cent year on year, and the lowest annual level for the investment metric since 1993.

However, Wang Chunying, a spokesperson for the forex regulator, said the foreign inflow of securities investment in China improved in the fourth quarter of 2023, with net inflow reaching a two-year high.

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“This shows more foreign capital comes to China to invest in business and allocate renminbi assets”, she said in a statement, adding that China’s balance of payments will stabilise in 2024 as “both the internal and external environments will generally improve”.

China’s CSI 300 stock index, the benchmark index covering leading stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen, lost about 11 per cent in 2023 as investor confidence waned.

The gauge rose more than 1 per cent on Monday and 0.2 per cent on Tuesday, following a long Lunar New Year holiday that saw stronger-than-expected consumer spending led by tourism and cinema sales.

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While committing to more openness and transparency, the CFC vowed to make Shanghai more competitive and influential as an international financial centre and consolidate the status of Hong Kong.

It also emphasised the importance of “high-level security”, pledging to keep all financial activities under control.

Officials should “identify, warn against, expose and handle risks as early as possible, and prevent small things from becoming magnified and big things from blowing up”, said the commission in the article.

Beijing sees managing financial risks as critical for China’s future development, as stability is being tested by government debt loads, widespread corruption and financial services that are lagging behind the country’s rapid advances in technology and manufacturing.

Preventing and resolving financial risks was termed an “eternal theme” for the Chinese government by President Xi Jinping at the twice-a-decade central financial work conference in October.

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COP29: Carbon Finance Summit – Session 2

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2 hours ago

November 18, 2024

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Greening and scaling up public finance is critical, but it is not enough. Significantly scaling up private sector finance, including through greening value chains, green financial products (e.g. funds and loans) and carbon finance is needed to channel more resources toward activities with a positive impact on the environment and society.

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Why Nvidia stock is ripe for another surge: Investor

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November 18, 2024

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Why Nvidia stock is ripe for another surge: Investor

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Nvidia (NVDA) mania is heating up ahead of the market darling’s Wednesday earnings report.

The company is “representative of the most important stocks in America,” EMJ Capital founder and president Eric Jackson told Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi on his Opening Bid podcast (listen in below; video above).

Jackson reiterated his call that Nvidia’s stock could double within the next twelve months given its wide lead on AI chip production.

“The investments [in AI] are just getting started,” Jackson added. “The need for these chips is still going to continue for the next year or two or three.”

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Nvidia’s stock has surged more than 2,600% in the past five years according to Yahoo Finance data, fueled by one impressive quarter after another as it grabbed the top position in cutting-edge chips.

The company’s strong performance are expected to continue in its fiscal third quarter — sales and profits are each estimated to be up 83% from a year ago. Wall Street remains bullish on its favorite stock.

Of the 63 sell-side analysts that cover Nvidia, 59 rate the stock a buy or strong buy, Yahoo Finance data shows. The average price target stands at $160.38, about 13% above current levels.

“We see the near-term risks as largely balanced and we are buyers of Nvidia heading into its fiscal third quarter earnings report scheduled for Wednesday. Positive set-up indicators from accelerating bookings at cloud service providers, an upward bias on hyper-scale capital expenditures, as well as our view that near-term estimates will increase post the earnings call,” Evercore ISI analyst Mark Lipacis said in a client note on Monday.

Lipacis says if Nvidia were to let investors down, it would come in the form of decelerating revenue growth.

There has been a whirlwind of activity around Nvidia as of late.

In addition to achieving world’s most valuable company status by nudging out Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG), Nvidia joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Nov. 8. Former chip leader Intel (INTC) was kicked out.

“It’s good that Nvidia is part of the mix now,” Jackson said, noting it could encourage purchases from retail investors.

One potential hiccup is the restrictions around selling to China by the Biden administration and subsequent write downs which were a “meaningful part of their quarterly earnings,” Jackson said. “They had to take it down to zero.”

Incoming president Donald Trump could stay firm on the chip issue as well, making good on his campaign promises around China.

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Shaping the Future of Finance: Diversified Product Ecosystem of SILEGX Exchange

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17 hours ago

November 18, 2024

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Shaping the Future of Finance: Diversified Product Ecosystem of SILEGX Exchange

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