The market regulator is vetting applications from 149 companies that intend to raise a combined 33.6 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) via initial public offerings (IPO) on the country's NASDAQ-like Growth Enterprise Board (GEB).
China's consumer price index (CPI) dipped 1.2 percent in August from a year earlier, and China's producer price index (PPI) fell 7.9 percent from a year earlier in August, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
The number of counterfeit smaller-denomination bills seized by police so far this year has increased sixfold since 2005, Zhang Tao, an official with the Ministry of Public Security, said yesterday.
Despite the explosion in lending in the first half of this year, most Chinese banks do not regard bad loans as a major problem over the next three years.
Domestic passenger vehicle sales hit a new record high in August, nearly doubling over last year, far beyond industry expectations.
The China Advertising Association publicly condemned 58 illegal infomercials on Sept 25 after an investigation by the State Administration of Industry and Commerce.
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd Chairman Li Ka-shing is buying more shares in the property developer, the worst-performing stock this year among Hong Kong's five biggest real-estate companies.
| Name | Value | Change | Time |
| Shanghai | +1.25% | Tue | 3,235.36 |
| Shenzhen | +1.42% | Tue | 13,677.72 |
| HSI | +1.34% | Tue | 22,113.15 |
| NIKKEI | +2.43% | Tue | 9,572.20 |
| Dow | +0.34% | Mon | 10,344.80 |
| Nasdaq | +0.29% | Mon | 2,144.60 |
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