In less than a week, the US could default for the first time on its national debt, with US lawmakers now racing to raise the debt ceiling ahead of a looming deadline.
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When Tesla s founder Elon Musk landed at a Beijing airport on Tuesday, his first visit to China in three years, he may have expected a hearty welcome from Chinese officials and employees at Tesla s plant in Shanghai, but he may not have expected that his visit would have attracted such enormous attention among Chinese netizens that the details of his dinner menu were spreading fast on China s social media platforms.
It s durian season, and online, some Chinese internet users are sharing the fun experience of opening “durian blind boxes,” betting on the size of the durian flesh inside. Those with full and rich flesh are called “repaying durians,” while those with shriveled flesh are called “revenge durians,” demonstrating the popularity of the fruit among Chinese people.
China will continue to expand the opening of specific futures varieties and attract more overseas institutions to participate in the pricing of China s primary product futures varieties, a senior government official said on Thursday, in what experts viewed as a firm signal of China s determination to further open up its financial markets, which will provide new growth momentum for global market investors amid volatility on some overseas markets.