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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

South China Morning Post- Business

Chinese brands close value gap with foreign peers
The gap between home-grown and multinational brands in China is narrowing as its enterprises improve marketing strategies and local consumers become more mature, the latest BrandZ study by...
Updated 28 Jan 2015 - 10:31am
Yahoo spinning off 15 per cent stake in China’s Alibaba
Yahoo plans to spin off its 15 per cent stake in China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, responding to pressure to hand over to shareholders its prized e-commerce investment valued at roughly US$40...
Updated 28 Jan 2015 - 10:09am
Yahoo spinning off 15 per cent stake in China’s Alibaba
Motorola unveiled three smartphone models on its return to China following a two-year absence from the most populous mobile phone market.
Motorola was a mobile phone pioneer in China but...
Updated 28 Jan 2015 - 10:12am
Yahoo spinning off 15 per cent stake in China’s Alibaba
Apple quarterly results smashed Wall Street expectations with record sales of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones in the holiday shopping season and strong sales in China, although the United States...
28 Jan 2015 - 8:07am

BANKING & FINANCE

Margin traders back in Shanghai market
It did not take long for the flood of borrowed money to come pouring back into mainland stocks.
28 Jan 2015 - 6:00am

ECONOMY

Dubai airport overtakes Heathrow as top air hub with 70.5m passengers
Dubai ended London Heathrow airport's decades of dominance as the world's top international air hub last year, buoyed by surging passenger numbers for local carrier Emirates which has a record-...
28 Jan 2015 - 4:00am

COMPANIES

Apple supplier Foxconn denies report it is cutting 1.3 million work force
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer and Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group has denied reports that it plans to shrink its 1.3 million work force, one of the largest in the world.
Updated 28 Jan 2015 - 10:12am

CHINA BUSINESS

PRESS DIGEST - Top stories in Hong Kong and Mainland China newspapers on January 28
These are the leading stories in Hong Kong and mainland newspapers and websites on Wednesday. The South China Morning Post has not verified these stories.
28 Jan 2015 - 9:30am

COMMODITIES

China's imports of gold fromHong Kong slump in 2014
The mainland's gold imports from Hong Kong fell nearly a third last year after record purchases in 2013.
Net gold imports from main conduit Hong Kong dropped to 813.13 tonnes last year...
28 Jan 2015 - 12:10am

SCMP Brand Post

Markets

Stock Quotes

Companies

Yahoo spinning off 15 per cent stake in China’s Alibaba
Yahoo plans to spin off its 15 per cent stake in China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, responding to pressure to hand over to shareholders its prized e-commerce investment valued at roughly US$40...
Updated 28 Jan 2015 - 10:09am
Apple rides strong US, China iPhone sales to sterling results; eyes Lunar New Year
Apple quarterly results smashed Wall Street expectations with record sales of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones in the holiday shopping season and strong sales in China, although the United States...
28 Jan 2015 - 8:07am
Advertising move pushes Tencent ADRs to record high
Tencent Holdings climbed to a record in New York as Asia's second-largest internet company started advertising on its WeChat mobile messaging platform, spurring optimism it will diversify its...
28 Jan 2015 - 6:00am
Advertising move pushes Tencent ADRs to record high
Satya Nadella, a year into his turnaround of Microsoft, is being tripped up in overseas markets as a slump in China and Japan and a stronger US dollar curbed sales of business-software licences....
Updated 28 Jan 2015 - 10:10am
Advertising move pushes Tencent ADRs to record high
The buyer of the historic Ho Tung Gardens on the Peak will get a stamp duty refund of almost HK$1 billion because the property is to be redeveloped.
28 Jan 2015 - 3:04am
 
Advertising move pushes Tencent ADRs to record high
Troubled mainland property developer Kaisa Group Holdings failed to remove a block on sales at its Shenzhen projects during talks with government officials on Monday. 
28 Jan 2015 - 12:10am
Advertising move pushes Tencent ADRs to record high
Hutchison Whampoa's blockbuster bid to buy British mobile network operator O2 will not only see the Hong Kong conglomerate add minority investors to the deal, but could entail its participation in...
27 Jan 2015 - 10:11pm
Advertising move pushes Tencent ADRs to record high
Motorola unveiled three smartphone models on its return to China following a two-year absence from the most populous mobile phone market.
Motorola was a mobile phone pioneer in China but...
Updated 28 Jan 2015 - 10:12am

Banking & Finance

Job growth in Hong Kong financial services sector to rise 15 per cent
Job growth in Hong Kong’s highly paid financial services sector is set to jump 15 per cent in the next few years and foreigners will dominate the new hires, a new report from the government’s...
26 Jan 2015 - 5:37pm
 
Investment banks taking aim at growing ranks of super rich
The growing ranks of the super rich and their increased appetite for risk have caught the eye of investment bankers.
26 Jan 2015 - 9:21am
Falling oil demand worries Saudis most
As the world's oil producers wring their hands over a global glut that's pushing down prices, evidence is mounting that Saudi Arabia is more concerned about shrinking demand.
27 Jan 2015 - 6:00am

Economy

Competing ideas
Since 1980, the world has experienced the highest rate of growth in real GDP per capita in human history. This has coincided with the global economy becoming more open, free and integrated, and...
27 Jan 2015 - 2:56pm
 
China cuts industrial output growth target
China has cut its target for industrial production growth this year to 8 per cent, a level in line with broad expectations that Beijing will tolerate slower economic expansion of about 7 per cent...
27 Jan 2015 - 8:50pm

China Business

China bull market masks breakdown in momentum
Just below the surface of the mainland's world-beating equity rally, signs of trouble are emerging.
28 Jan 2015 - 6:00am
China's regulators mull plan to let Shanghai, Shenzhen review IPOs by middle of 2015
The mainland's securities regulator is considering handing over the power of approving initial public offering applications to the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges this year.
27 Jan 2015 - 9:59pm

Property

CDL launches campaign to woo Hong Kong and mainland China tourists
City Developments Ltd (CDL), a major developer in Singapore, is launching an aggressive push to market its joint-venture luxury hotel to lure travellers from Hong Kong.
28 Jan 2015 - 6:00am
CDL's Aloysius Lee gears up for next challenge after steering S$3 billion project in Singapore
Five years ago, Aloysius Lee Tse-sang returned to Singapore from Hong Kong after serving as chief executive of South Beach Consortium, a joint venture formed by City Developments Ltd (CDL) and...
28 Jan 2015 - 6:00am
CDL's Aloysius Lee gears up for next challenge after steering S$3 billion project in Singapore
What: Side table
Why: This acrylic beauty folds away for convenient storage
How much: HK$1,350
Where: Tang Tang Tang Tang, 66 Johnston Road, Wan Chai, tel: 2525 2112
...
27 Jan 2015 - 6:59pm

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