Category: Finance
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Yuan Hits 3.5-Year High as Dollar Weakness Meets Export-Driven Settlement Wave
Read more: Yuan Hits 3.5-Year High as Dollar Weakness Meets Export-Driven Settlement WaveAugust 18, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The renminbi charged to a three-and-a-half-year high on Monday, with the onshore USD/CNY rate closing at 6.7382, up 39 basis points from the prior session. The offshore rate likewise punched through the 6.74 threshold, marking the strongest level since February 2023. The move caps a relentless climb: the onshore yuan has…
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To Escape the Bubble Label, AI Must Book Nearly $1 Trillion in Revenue by 2029—And the Funding Gap Won’t Close Until 2028
Read more: To Escape the Bubble Label, AI Must Book Nearly $1 Trillion in Revenue by 2029—And the Funding Gap Won’t Close Until 2028August 18, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The artificial intelligence industry must generate revenue on the order of one trillion US dollars by 2029 to cover its accounting costs and prove that the current capital-spending boom is not a bubble, according to a research note published Monday by Guojin Securities’ macro team led by chief economist Song Xuetao, with contact…
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Hard Tech Rewrites A-Share Valuation: ChangXin’s Market Cap Tops 4 Trillion Yuan, 2.5× Moutai
Read more: Hard Tech Rewrites A-Share Valuation: ChangXin’s Market Cap Tops 4 Trillion Yuan, 2.5× MoutaiAugust 18, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The A-share market crossed an invisible threshold on August 17. ChangXin Technology (688825.SH), China’s leading domestic DRAM manufacturer, closed at 61.80 yuan, up 12%, with a market capitalization surpassing 4 trillion yuan—making it the first A-share company ever to reach that threshold and overtaking Kweichow Moutai to become the most valuable…
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Unitree Robotics IPO Prices at 219x P/E, Becoming the Hardest-To-Win Lottery in STAR Market History
Read more: Unitree Robotics IPO Prices at 219x P/E, Becoming the Hardest-To-Win Lottery in STAR Market HistoryAugust 18, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – Unitree Robotics, the world’s leading humanoid robot maker by shipment volume, will debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market on Wednesday, August 19, under ticker 688836, the company said in its initial public offering listing prospectus released late Sunday. The offering was priced at 150.80 yuan per share, implying a…
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Unlocking a 10-Trillion-Yuan ‘War Chest’，China Overhauls Housing Provident Fund Rules
Read more: Unlocking a 10-Trillion-Yuan ‘War Chest’，China Overhauls Housing Provident Fund RulesAugust 18, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China on Monday unveiled the most sweeping revision to its Housing Provident Fund (HPF) regulations in more than two decades, redrawing how nearly 11 trillion yuan in pooled savings can be used, administered, and priced. The decision, signed by Premier Li Qiang on August 10 and released via the State Council…
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Foreign Capital’s Taste in A-Shares Is Shifting: QFII Piles Into Small-Cap Hard-Tech, ADIA Bets Big on New Energy
Read more: Foreign Capital’s Taste in A-Shares Is Shifting: QFII Piles Into Small-Cap Hard-Tech, ADIA Bets Big on New EnergyAugust 17, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — The classic foreign-investor playbook for A-shares — buy consumer blue chips and financial giants, then hold — is being quietly rewritten. As the third-quarter share-buyback wave forces listed companies to disclose their top-ten shareholders, the latest QFII positions reveal a sharp divergence: investment-bank-affiliated foreign institutions are swarming small- and mid-cap…
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Canadian Regulator Flags A Chinese Company’ $175M Argentina Lithium Acquisition as National Security Risk
Read more: Canadian Regulator Flags A Chinese Company’ $175M Argentina Lithium Acquisition as National Security RiskAugust 16, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — A 1.75 billion-yuan ($175 million) bid by Chinese property developer Hualian Holdings to acquire an 80% stake in Argentina’s Arizaro lithium salt lake has been swept into a Canadian national security review, underscoring how Ottawa’s tightening grip on critical minerals is reaching far beyond its own borders to ensnare deals…
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Chinese A-shares Shift from Liquidity Rally to Structural Opportunities as Market Divergence Widens
Read more: Chinese A-shares Shift from Liquidity Rally to Structural Opportunities as Market Divergence WidensAugust 16, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The liquidity-driven rebound that lifted Chinese A-shares in early August has largely run its course, and the market is entering a phase where performance will hinge on earnings rather than cheap money, according to the latest strategy note from China Merchants Securities (CMS). With the interim earnings season approaching and…
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PBOC Accelerates Interest Rate Reform with New Short-Term Benchmarks
Read more: PBOC Accelerates Interest Rate Reform with New Short-Term BenchmarksAugust 15, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China’s central bank is accelerating its shift toward a more market-driven interest rate framework, signaling a strategic pivot in monetary policy transmission and loan pricing mechanisms. In its second-quarter 2026 Monetary Policy Report, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) outlined plans to refine short-term rate controls by increasing the frequency of…
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CSRC Flags Accounting Errors at 214 Listed Firms in 2025 Annual Report Review
Read more: CSRC Flags Accounting Errors at 214 Listed Firms in 2025 Annual Report ReviewAugust 14, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Thursday released its Accounting Supervision Report on Listed Companies’ 2025 Annual Financial Reports, revealing that 214 of the 5,517 companies that filed annual reports by the April 30 deadline received non-standard audit opinions — a sign that financial-disclosure quality, while broadly sound, still harbors…