Keen to accelerate investments, technology and capital flows from the EU, India wants the investment and trade deals to happen parallelly and independently. “Both the investment deal and trade deal will have to happen parallelly and independently,” said an official.
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China Shares Soar as Factory Activity Expands; Australia Tumbles as Government Imposes New RestrictionsShares in Australia tumbled nearly 1.5% in reaction to the news that the country will ring in the new year with harsher restrictions.
Dec 31, 2020 08:52 AM GMT
The major Asia-Pacific stock indexes were mixed on Thursday with some closing early and others not opening at all. Markets in Japan and South Korea were closed for a holiday, while markets in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong closed earlier than usual due to New Year’s Eve. In China, it was business as usual.
In the cash market on Thursday, China’s Shanghai Index settled at 3473.07, up 58.62 or +1.72%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index finished at 27231.13, up 84.02 or +0.31% and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index closed at 6587.10, down 95.30 or -1.43%.
$1600000000.00 so they could definitely be forced to pay that back to investors but this also comes at a time when there s a lot of questions about the future of the oil industry and this could also sort of dampen enthusiasm for owning oil stocks. fell to the line in front of thank you. and now to some of the other global business stories making headlines today the russian africa forum is about to start in salt she friended expects $47.00 african leaders for this event for moscow africa s potentially lucrative market for russian products including weapons and as the world s leading producer russia is also looking to sell grains to africa s ever growing population. china s foreign minister says he is confident of an investment deal being clinched with the e.u. calling the un china each other s biggest economic and commercial partners he also
bad as what happened with ukraine. ainsley: president trump doubling down on his call for joe biden and his son to be investigated now saying that china should look into them too. brian: because of the investment deal that evidently was hatched on a trip to air force 2. here with more is fox news correspondent ed henry. good morning. brian: we expanded statement when he had his segment on the white house lawn. ed: it keeps going. the democrats have been pouncing on this but they have been pouncing on everything the president has said. we had a lot of president s allies in the last week or so saying the transcript with ukrainian president didn t show that the president wanted to investigate joe biden and hunter biden that it s not clear. now it s sort of clear from the president s own words he does later in that news conference he said he does want ukraine to investigate joe and hunter biden and maybe china ought to as well because of business dealings over there the private equity fu