BrainCan - capital markets

outlook for 2h17: an idiot s guide to china s...

Risk appetite is running high,and it’s the substantial caps that are outperforming, instead of the...

what european equities cannot offer

European equities have suddenly become popular for various reasons. First,political risk in the...

trump calls december stock market fall a glitch

US President Donald Trump played down the stock markets drop at the end of 2018,calling it a...

the economic message from equity markets

The recent stock-market correction – the first in the United States in two years – has invited...

the longest, most boring - unproductive? - warren...

It’s probably the longest talk expose on earth – and hosted by the oldest men to lead such an...

levi strauss seeks to raise up to us$800 million...

Levi Strauss & Co.,the 145-year-ragged company that made the first pair of blue jeans, is planning...

beauty and the sweet ipo

You know they are hot. But perhaps not certain how long the ride can final. In case you are...

swanns: where great opportunities in tech sector...

The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index declined 1.8 percent final Friday after Goldman Sachs warned...

how to build a portfolio with market leaders

Breaking the 25000-points designate recently,Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index has jumped 36 percent...

hong kong set to take global ipo crown but many...

Hong Kong is on course to hold the global IPO crown this year for the most money raised in stock...

hedge funds signal continuing confidence over us...

Prominent hedge fund managers appeared to have made bets that the US economy will continue to expand...

singapore, malaysia unveil plans to link stock...

Singapore and Malaysia announced plans on Tuesday for a unique trading link between their stock...

why china literature is going to disappoint

Never would I believe thought that there are so many literature lovers in Hong Kong. But,as it turns...

as a tycoon trio offload shares, is it time for us...

How effect you capitalize on a bull market run that lasts for nine months? Sell in fall! Well,this...

nine firms set prices for ipos on china s nasdaq...

Nine Chinese companies,among the first to list on China’s Nasdaq-style tech board, announced...

shanghai tech board draws defectors from rivals

A growing number of companies trading on China’s main over-the-counter (OTC) fairness market are...

wall st firms plan new low cost stock exchange

A group of nine financial institutions,including Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments and Bank of...

us equities in bear market; 2nd leg down more...

US stocks will suffer further falls,billionaire bond trader and investment guru Jeffrey Gundlach...

uber makes confidential filing for ipo: report

Uber Technologies has filed paperwork for an initial public offering,Reuters reports, citing people...

tencent backed chinese travel firm slashes hong...

Tencent Holdings-backed online Chinese travel firm Tongcheng-Elong launched a far...

dow jones surpasses hang seng as trade war rages...

So far no one knows when,and how, the escalating trade war between the United States and China will...

after the bitcoin craze, we now have pot stock...

Forget the crypto counters or China concept stocks like Nio or Pinduoduo. The red-hot names in the...

tesla short sellers trim exposure but stay the...

Short sellers betting against Tesla Inc. trimmed their exposure to the electric car maker’s stock...

amazon tops alphabet in market cap, now no. 2 us...

Amazon.com on Tuesday moved ahead of Google parent Alphabet in market capitalization for the first...

what to make of the recent market pullback?

Portfolio management is all approximately maximizing gains from your winning hands and minimizing...

china tells cornerstone investors in hk ipos to...

China has made it mandatory for mainland cornerstone investors in Hong Kong initial public offerings...

london stock exchange prepares for no deal brexit

The London Stock Exchange said its pan-European platform Turquoise would shift trading in...

uber, lyft to offer ipo shares to most active...

Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft arrangement to offer cash bonuses to some of their most active...

china tobacco international files for hong kong...

China Tobacco International,the abroad subsidiary of China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly and the...

us stocks tumble on trade, growth worries

US stocks tumbled on Tuesday,with the benchmark Dow index shedding nearly 800 points, as the bond...

shanghai bourse to launch new tech board

Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled plans on Monday to launch a technology board in Shanghai that...

wall street investors fret about a correction as...

The deepest one-day selloff in Wall Street stocks in eight months has investors using the market...

chinese internet stock selloff may shake faith in...

A steep downturn in heavyweight Chinese internet stocks and recent weakness in half of the so-called...

what s wrong with xiaomi?

Everything that could go erroneous went erroneous for Xiaomi Corp. as it heads toward its trading...

wall street falls as facebook drags down tech...

US stocks dropped on Monday,with the S&P and Nasdaq suffering their worst day in just over five...

china plans new share issue option to bring tech...

China may allow its offshore-listed tech giants to sell a form of shares on the mainland,Reuters...

us stocks plunge again; market in correction...

US stocks suffered another big selloff on Thursday,with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling...

when the bull in year of rooster turns into bear...

The first time it happened,it was scary. The moment time, not so much. Now, and are you scared or...

us profit forecasts rise amid wall street selloff

Wall Street’s main stock indexes on Friday suffered their worst week in two years as bond yields...

world s wealthiest us$1 trillion richer in 2017:...

The world’s richest people added US$1 trillion to their wealth in 2017,more than four times last...

thanksgiving time for investors

November has been a very lucky month for Hong Kong,giving us a great reason to celebrate...

china unicom shares surge after regulator backs...

China Unicom’s US$11.7 billion ownership reform method does not violate rules,the nation’s...

two reasons to skip the market s joy ride

There are two primary reasons to be cautious about investing fresh capital in nowadays’s richly...

uber chief blames us trade policy for lackluster...

Uber Technologies chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s initial public offering...

dow soars more than 1,000 points on short...

US stocks staged a dramatic rebound on Wednesday,with the Dow Jones Industrial Average surging more...

japan brokers gird for softbank s mammoth ipo

Japan’s stockbrokers are rubbing their hands ahead of SoftBank’s record-breaking US$21 billion...

market drop nowhere near harming us economy: fed s...

The recent cratering of stock markets is nowhere near severe enough to rattle confidence and...

asia shares swoon to 19 month lows after wall...

Share markets in Asia plunged to a 19-month low on Thursday after Wall Street’s worst losses in...

msci considering raising weighting of chinese...

Global index provider MSCI said it will consider quadrupling the weighting of Chinese broad-caps in...

meituan said to have raised us$4.2 billion in hong...

Chinese online food delivery-to-ticketing services firm Meituan Dianping raised US$4.2 billion in...

homes, not stocks, are best long term bets -...

The global financial tsunami that started with the collapse of Lehman Brothers happened precisely 10...

investors sue tesla, musk over going private...

Tesla Inc. and its chief executive Elon Musk were sued by investors for allegedly fraudulently...

dell moves to go public without ipo

Dell Technologies Inc. said it will pay US$21.7 billion in cash and stock to buy back shares tied to...

spotify shares jump in record setting direct...

Shares of Spotify Technology SA ended up 12.9 percent on their first day of trade on the novel York...

spotify files for direct listing on new york stock...

Music streaming service Spotify on Wednesday filed for a direct listing of its shares,taking an...

shanghai stocks post biggest loss in two years

China stocks tumbled on Tuesday as a global market rout intensified,with the Shanghai index posting...

us dollar holds firm as investors scurry to safety

The dollar stood tall on Tuesday as a rout in global equities prompted anxious investors to cut...

wishing for an even better stock market in 2018

Things could not go any better for Hong Kong’s stock market in 2017. Forget all the doom and gloom...

hang seng or tencent index?

The festive season is upon us,and Santa Claus has stuffed our Christmas stockings with bulging...

tencent s china literature eyes us$1.1 bln in hong...

China Literature Ltd.,China’s largest online publishing and e-book company, launched an initial...

china s msci inclusion: what next after the...

China’s entry into the MSCI global indices is a historic milestone. The MSCI inclusion is...

xiaomi shareholders sat on 40 percent loss in...

The first year of Xiaomi Corp. (01810.HK) as a listed company was far from satisfactory. Its stock...

free economy is cornerstone of a booming equity...

As US-China trade tensions ease,mainland firms listed in Hong Kong acquire been doing quite well...

beyond meat share price more than doubles in...

Shares of US vegan burger maker Beyond Meat Inc. rose more than 160 percent in their market debut on...

uber set to kick off investor road show with ipo...

Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc will unveil terms for its initial public offering on...

lyft shares hit new low amid uber ipo chatter

Shares of recently listed Lyft Inc fell to a fresh low and closed down nearly 11 percent on...

chinese murdoch wants to list his media assets

Last month Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch completed his deal of the century...

lyft valued at us$24.3 billion in first ride...

Lyft Inc was valued at US$24.3 billion in the first initial public offering (IPO) of a ride-hailing...

the more mtr is slammed, the higher its shares...

Name a blue-chip company that has generated so much improper news in recent months yet has seen its...

facebook to buy back additional us$9 billion of...

Facebook Inc. will buy back an additional US$9 billion of its shares as it looks to pacify investors...

fosun launches up to us$548 million club med ipo...

Fosun International (00656.HK) is looking to raise up to US$548 million with the IPO of its Club Med...

speculators return as china eases market curbs

Speculators are staging a forceful comeback in China’s stock market,bidding up shares in...

msci adds more china stocks to global emerging...

MSCI Inc. said it will add several onshore Chinese stocks to its closely watched and widely...

wall street continues slide before start of...

Wall Street indices continued their slide in Thursday’s volatile session as investors worried...

haidilao prices ipo at top end, raising nearly...

Chinese hotpot chain Haidilao raised nearly US$1 billion in its Hong Kong initial public offering by...

buffett says berkshire buying own stock, more...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman Warren Buffett said the conglomerate bought back its own stock for...

telsa short sellers dealt a us$1.7 bln loss as...

Tesla stock short-sellers are estimated to maintain suffered US$1.7 billion in paper losses on...

pinduoduo said to price us ipo at top end, raising...

Chinese online group discounter Pinduoduo Inc. priced its US initial public offering (IPO) at US$19...

xiaomi: cheap products, expensive valuation

“World-lesson products at half the price” is one of the best-known slogans of Xiaomi...

media chinese cashes in on most kwai chung frenzy

The incredible Most Kwai Chung,the company behind the satirical weekly magazine 100Most and online...

dropbox ipo priced higher than expected on strong...

Dropbox Inc.’s initial public offering,the largest tech stock debut in more than a year, was...

foxconn unit wins china approval for shanghai ipo

China’s securities regulator has given the go-ahead to Taiwan’s Foxconn group,the world’s...

spotify files to go public through direct listing

Music streaming service Spotify AB has filed to list its shares on the novel York Stock...

citigroup to pay us$11.5 million over errant stock...

Citigroup Inc. will pay at least US$11.5 million in fines and restitution to settle charges it...

ge seen at risk of losing its dow spot as share...

General Electric Co. faces the risk of losing its membership of the elite 30-stock Dow Jones...

china literature ipo raises us$1.1 billion;...

China Literature Ltd. (00772.HK),Tencent Holdings’ online publishing arm, has raised US$1.1...

why japanese equities are a good bet

With the Nikkei Index reaching a 21-year tall,foreign investors’ interest in Japanese equities...

the bull run may be just getting started

I had earlier set a two-year target for Hong Kong’s benchmark index at 40000,with the forecast...

fosun, wanda, anbang and hna being investigated:...

Banks in China have been ordered to investigate loans made to the country’s top abroad deal...

msci adds china a shares to global benchmark

China’s domestic equities will join MSCI Inc.’s benchmark indices after three failed attempts,a...

huishan dairy shares plunge 85 percent, trading...

Shares of China Huishan Dairy Holdings Co. Ltd. (06863.HK) fell by a record 85 percent in Hong Kong...

thailand set to be southeast asia s hottest ipo...

Thailand is set to see the most funds raised from initial public offerings in Southeast Asia this...

pinterest raises us$1.4 billion in ipo

Pinterest Inc raised around US$1.4 billion in its initial public offering (IPO),fetching a roughly...

aston martin plans london listing as turnaround...

Luxury carmaker Aston Martin plans to float on the London Stock Exchange,completing a turnaround for...

haidilao is hot pick for hotpot and ipo

The name is hot,and the IPO is probably hotter. Hotpot chain Sichuan Haidilao Catering has filed for...

fearless girl to stare down the new york stock...

The bronze statue of a little girl that became a tourism phenomenon by staring down Wall Street’s...

us stocks fall as fed minutes send bond yields...

US stocks finished lower in a choppy session Wednesday on renewed worries over higher interest rates...

us stocks end lower as uncertainty reigns

US stocks finished lower on Wednesday after early gains,with investors remaining cautious after the...

2018 outlook: equities to hit new high, property...

After a strong rally this year, the Hang Seng Index is likely to sustain the strength and hit a...

hkma announces prudential measures for property...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued guidelines to banks on a new round of prudential...

us stocks tumble as trump trade unwinds

US equities fell sharply on Wednesday as political turbulence in Washington prompted investors to...

eu looks to build alternative to london for...

Brexit has forced the European Union to rethink its flagship capital markets union (CMU) project and...

china publishes final rules for new shanghai tech...

China has finalized regulations for a Nasdaq-style innovation board that promises to smooth the way...

asian shares up after msci announces china...

Asian shares rose on Friday,driven by a rally in Chinese markets after index publisher MSCI...

thai tycoon quits listed firms on regulator s...

Thai tycoon Prasert Prasarttong-osoth resigned on Monday as chief executive of Bangkok Dusit Medical...

tencent music raises nearly us$1.1 billion in us...

China-based music streaming company Tencent Music Entertainment Group has raised close to US$1.1...

investors managing us$32 trillion in assets urge...

Global investors managing US$32 trillion in assets fill called on governments to accelerate steps to...

snap subpoenaed by us authorities over ipo...

The US Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission beget subpoenaed Snap Inc. for...

tencent music delays us$2 billion us ipo on weak...

Tencent Music Entertainment has delayed its planned US initial public offering (IPO) until at least...

tencent online music unit files for us listing

Tencent Music Entertainment Group has formally filed with regulators to list in the United...

chinese ev maker nio seeks to raise us$1.32...

Chinese electric vehicle start-up Nio Inc.,backed by Chinese tech heavyweight Tencent Holdings Ltd....

china s iqiyi said to raise us$2.25 billion from...

Chinese streaming platform iQiyi Inc. priced its US initial public offering at US$18 per share,in...

china literature s stellar debut boosts outlook...

The smashing success of Tencent’s e-book unit China Literature (00772.HK),which saw its shares...

re pricing risks under new china bank regulations

Hong Kong market risk premium is approaching historic lows,hinting at euphoric sentiment. ...

china hongqiao fights back short seller via...

The stock trading link with Shanghai and Shenzhen has brought tremendous benefits to the Hong Kong...

sfc fines top investment banks us$100 million for...

Hong Kong’s securities regulator banned UBS from main initial public offerings (IPOs) in the city...

us charges former top apple lawyer with insider...

A former top corporate lawyer at Apple was criminally charged by the US Department of Justice on...

most kwai chung can offer more than just quick ipo...

Most Kwai Chung, operator of the online satirical media platform TVMost and magazine 100Most, is...

market selloff deepens as fear spreads across asia

A rout in global equities deepened in Asia on Tuesday as inflation worries gripped financial...

tencent expected to raise us$1 billion in music...

Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK) is expected to raise at least US$1 billion from an initial public...

china s luckin coffee files for us listing

Beijing-based coffee chain Luckin Coffee on Monday filed for an initial public offering in the...

tencent music shares climb in us trading debut

Tencent Music shares surged as much as 13.5 percent in their US trading debut on Wednesday as...

indian rupee, stocks dive after central bank chief...

Indian markets plunged before recovering some ground on Tuesday as Reserve Bank of India Governor...

hk, china bourses reach deal on dual class shares

The Hong Kong stock exchange said on Sunday that it has reached a deal with its counterparts in...

hong kong raises base rate to 1.5% after fed hike

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) raised the base rate by 25 basis points to 1.5 percent. The...

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