Regulators announces numerous measures to reform equity markets, boost prices

Some of these measures are clearly aimed at stimulating short-term investor appetite to purchase stocks, and to hopefully increase market confidence. But they are also a genuine attempt to make markets more functional, accessible, and efficient in the long term, so that more investor and household cash flows into equity markets as a matter of course…
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PBoC extends CNY trading hours

More than 60 offshore banks and other financial institutions are CFETS members. Longer trading hours mean they can trade CNY – rather than offshore CNH – at more convenient times…
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Beijing expands QFLP program

The expansion of Beijing’s QFLP program is part of a broader push to open up the services sector in Beijing. In September 2020, the State Council approved a plan, formulated by the municipal government and the Ministry of Commerce, to set up demonstration zones and pilot programs to further open the capital’s services sector. The plan included liberalizing the scope of public market investment through the QFLP pilot program…
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