Global copper producers are converging in Chile this week for their largest gathering since 2019, with talks expected to center on the industry's growing M&A wave amid surging demand and tight supply for the metal anchoring the green energy transition.
China's biggest banks are planning at least 40 billion yuan ($5.8 billion) of bond sales to plug a major fund shortfall ahead of a 2025 deadline to meet global capital requirements, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
Up to half a trillion dollars in debt needs to be written off to help developing nations at greatest risk of default return to sounder fiscal footing and meet climate and development goals, according to a Boston University report released on Thursday.
China's gross domestic product likely perked up in the first quarter of the year, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as the end of strict COVID-19 curbs helped lift the world's second-largest economy out of a crippling pandemic slump.