Global food company H J Heinz Co will step up investment and add more products to boost its presence in China's fast-growing market for infant food, a top company official said.
China's mergers and acquisitions market was worth $355.8 billion in the first 11 months of the year, a 3 percent drop on 2013 but a 154 percent rise on 2008, according to a report by ChinaVenture Group.
Europe's main funds regulator has introduced a "fast-track" procedure for approving mutual funds that wish to participate in a landmark Shanghai-Hong Kong equity trading scheme.
China will establish a comprehensive system to monitor foreign companies' profitability to curb cross-border tax evasion, the State Administration of Taxation said.
Real estate developer Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties Co is likely to trim the size of its initial public offering in Hong Kong amid fresh concerns about rising debt levels and foundering sales for mainland developers.
Dalian Wanda Group Co, which controls the second-biggest United States cinema chain, is in talks to acquire a stake in film studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, Chairman Wang Jianlin has revealed.
Efforts by China's central bank to signal it will let the yuan strengthen, even as it grapples with a slowing economy, are being lost on currency strategists.
The future of the Black Friday shopping event appears to be online, with Chinese consumers playing a larger role.
Economic growth in China is expected to post the slowest growth rate since 1990 of around 7.2 percent in 2015, State-owned lender Bank of China Ltd said on Tuesday.
Bank of China Ltd said on Tuesday that it expects investment in the real estate sector to rebound next year, with first-tier cities being the main beneficiaries. Driving the recovery next year would be the favorable property policies introduced in the second half of 2014, such as the further relaxation of purchase controls and lower lending rates.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer by sales, is cutting 250 Chinese jobs and closing its regional office in Dalian in an effort to improve efficiency and regain its declining market share, it said. The moves come just days after it axed 20 senior level jobs in the country.
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