China reduced its US Treasury bond portfolio by $ 6.22 billion to $ 1.062 trillion amid strained relations with Washington in September. This was reported on Friday by the South China Morning Post, citing data from the US Treasury.
This was the lowest amount of these investments since February 2017. According to the publication, China is reducing its share in US debt for the fifth month in a row. At the same time, Beijing continues to increase investment in the Japanese government bond market – in the first nine months of this year, they grew by 73%.
In September, China’s Global Times reported that China could cut US treasury stocks by about 20 percent to $ 800 billion amid escalating tensions with Washington. Officially, the Chinese government does not disclose the size of this portfolio.
However, according to US statistics, Hong Kong reduced the portfolio of US Treasury bonds by $ 5.46 billion – to 245.47 billion in September. This is the lowest level since October 2019, according to the South China Morning Post.
On August 3, Alphabet issued bonds worth $10 billion. This is the largest issue of debt securities in the history of the company, according to the Reuters. With $ 10 billion bond tranche allocated $ 1 billion with a maturity of 5 years and a coupon of 0.45%. The $4.5 billion tranches with maturities of […]
On Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase announced the launch of its mobile payment service QuickAccept, and on Wednesday, Visa launched its application called Tap to Phone. The purpose of both programs is to offer sellers an easy way to accept contactless payments from customers via a smartphone or tablet. According to Visa, in the context of the […]
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On Tuesday, shares of the four largest US technology companies declined, as the 16-month government investigation of their competitive practices led to the first results in the form of 449-page report on their abuse of the market power. Shares of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and the parent company Google Alphabet fell to 2.9%, 3%, 2.26% and […]
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The Homsters Company, which was founded by Ukrainian and Polish, and is better known in our country as Prof.Estate, raised $ 600,000 from private investors for the launch of the company in Vientam under the brand TimHome.vn. Homsters unites three projects: two marketplaces on real estate (Homsters.kz Timhome.vn in Kazakhstan and TimHome.vn. in Vietnam) and […]
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The National Bank did not go out this week with interventions on the interbank market, according to the press service of the regulator on Friday, November 27. The Central Bank has been refusing to buy or sell currency for three weeks in a row. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, the […]
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Recently was received an information that Nezhin fat plant will invest in the construction of a new oil-extracting factory. The Company appraises the need for investment in the construction of this plant in the amount of about $ 50 million (of proprietary funds and borrowed resources). Nezhin fat plant (Chernihiv region) plans to build the […]
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By the information of Interfax-Ukraine, the state Oschadbank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed the memorandum of the association about corporate management state bank support on the 25th of November 2016. The parties also have concluded the memorandum about supporting of 50 million euros due to a trade financing program. As […]
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The financial results of the quarter, which covers the period from April to June, were most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the tourism industry. Many countries have closed their borders, travel conditions have become more difficult, and most travelers have canceled their traditional trips during the hottest tourist season due to concerns about […]
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According to the State Statistics Service on January 1, 2017 it is registered in Ukraine 15 206 join – stock companies, among them there are 3 122 public companies. Despite the 25-year anniversary of the Ukrainian state, the national business has only recently started to rethink management system and effective implementation of global corporate governance […]
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The ABH Ukraine, Cyprus company said it would buy a 50% stake in the “Alfa Insurance” insurance company. Recently, the Antimonopoly Committee has permitted ABH Ukraine (Cyprus) to buy a 50% stake in the “Alfa Insurance” insurance company, according to the Antimonopoly Committee report. “It was given a resolution to the ABH Ukraine Limited company […]
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Lviv Bus Plant (LAZ) won the case from the communal enterprise Kyivpastrans in payment for delivering to the communal enterprise trolleybuses for over 118 million UAH in 2012. On March 16, the Kiev Commercial Court ordered the Kievprastrans to pay Lviv Bus Plant (LAZ) Ltd. more than 118 million UAH for the delivered trolley buses, […]
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The Samsung Group electronics declared a takeover of Harman International Industries Company. The price of one share of the American entity will cost shareholders of Samsung $112 that is 28% more than the start price of assets. Thus, the cost of the transaction reaches $8 billion. Harman International Industries is the American developer and the […]
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Introduced five years ago in Amazon’s warehouses the robots did not make the life easier for the employees – on the contrary, people are now forced to work four times faster. In addition, the robotics has brought Amazon warehouses to the record 14,000 serious injuries by the end of 2019. The current figures are to […]
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Since July 2015 a group of companies “Prometheus” reinvested 40% of the profits in the upgrade of material and technical base, according to a company press release. Mainly investments were aimed at expanding the network of elevator capacities, upgrade of grain storage, modernization of equipment and improvement of the quality of processes, replenishment of the […]
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Chief State Sanitary Doctor, Viktor Liashko, said that the drug “Remdesivir”, which was planned to treat patients from the coronavirus, have already been purchased, and the party is taken to Ukraine. He said the news in the interview with Radio Svoboda on Sunday, October 18. “And now it is being transported to the territory of […]
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Leaders of Yahoo have told that they refused from the realizing of the business to China’s Alibaba in the amount of $ 30 billion. The Company also thinks what they have to do with the Japanese peace of the business, which is estimated at $ 8.5 billion. (In the Japanese company they owns […]
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NASA has provided to Nokia with $ 14.1 million to deploy 4G (LTE) network on the moon. The US space agency noted that telecommunications networks of this standard will be able to provide more reliable than radio signals, communication on the Earth’s satellite, where it is planned to build the lunar base by 2028. NASA […]
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