The outline for China’s 13th five-year plan isn’t exactly summer beach reading: The 65,858-character document, which lays out in broad terms how China’s leaders want the country’s economy to develop between now and ...
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Corporate financial results for the first half of this year are nigh, and more than 60 percent of some 1,800 A-share listed companies have said they expect positive growth. Agriculture, biopharmaceutical, food and beverage are among the ...
Economists and insiders are calling for more effective goverment supervision as a year of wild swings in China's stock market is coming to an end. China fought an unprecedented and costly war in 2015 to contain wide stock market ...
Chinese stocks tumbled for the second straight session Thursday led by brokerages and the coal sector. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.65 percent to close at 3,612.49 points. The Shenzhen index lost 0.58 percent to finish ...
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The State Council announced Wednesday that it supported the development of direct financing to reduce production costs for enterprises. Through direct financing, enterprises can get funds from the capital market by issuing shares or ...
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China's state-run media are trying to do something the securities industry has failed to accomplish for much of the past three years: get the world's biggest population to buy more stocks. The official Xinhua News Agency published at ...
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China's Shanghai Shipping Freight Exchange plans to launch dry bulk freight futures contracts on June 18, the first of its kind in the global freight market, SSEFC President Yu Jun said late last week. "Being the first to launch such a ...
After selling MSM Transportation to Wheels Group last year, Mike McCarron joined Wheels to oversee mergers and acquisitions in a bid to consolidate the Canadian 3PL space. To gain a greater understanding of where the freight brokering ...
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Hellman & Friedman, a private equity investment firm has reached an agreement to acquire insurance software provider Applied Systems, from Bain Capital, in a transaction valued at nearly $1.8bn. Other parties who will also invest the ...
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Confie Seguros, a rapidly growing national provider of personal lines insurance, announced the acquisition of two additional insurance brokerages: DeFranco Insurance Agency, Inc. of Niagara Falls, NY and Insurance Group of American, Inc. ...
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Applied Systems today announced that Miller Insurance Brokers has chosen Applied Epic to enhance client service and drive business growth for its insurance brokerage business in Canada. Applied Epic is the insurance industry's ...
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Russian Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer by output, may delay the start of production at one of its biggest projects, seeking to ease a global glut of the metal. Rusal , led by Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, and other big ...
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Applied Systems is planning to introduce its newest version of agency and brokerage management system, known as TAM 2013, during the early fall of 2013. Suitable for the insurance industry, the new platform will allow insurance agencies ...
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Insurance technology provider Applied Systems has purchased UK-based Insurecom, for an undisclosed sum, with a strategy to boost its UK footprint. The acquired, which will operate as Applied Systems UK, had been serving as a business ...
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The global financial crisis cast a large shadow over the Chinese financial system, prompting already conservative regulators to adopt a more rigorous, and by extension slower approach to reform. Yet there are also skeletons from ...
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