News from China, where outgoing Prime Minister Wen Jiabao presented the country’s economic targets for 2013, including an unchanged GDP target of 7.5%, a lowered inflation target of 3.5% (down from 4%) and a budget deficit of RMB1.2tn, or 2% of GDP. Defense spending will be boosted by 10.7%, a smaller increase than in any year since 1990. But the departing Premier also said that China’s growth model was unsustainable and on top of that paired with a whole array of social issues, like the income gap, increasing pollution and a real estate bubble. read article
Also in China, the SEC has been allowed to subpoena Deloitte’s China unit over accounting fraud at Chinese companies operating in the US. After initial co-operation between the American and Chinese securities regulators failed, this is a big step in terms of cross-border fraud investigations. read article
In other regulatory news, an undisclosed group of banks in the City of London have received a hat tip from law firm Shearman & Sterling that it was possible to fight the EU’s banker bonus cap [proposal] in court. read article
Until then, enter George Osborne.
Otherwise, Apple’s stock fell to a new 52-week low yesterday, dragging the company’s market cap down below $400bn for the first time in over a year.
News from China, where outgoing Prime Minister Wen Jiabao presented the country’s economic targets for 2013, including an unchanged GDP target of 7.5%, a lowered inflation target of 3.5% (down from 4%) and a budget deficit of RMB1.2tn, or 2% of GDP. Defense spending will be boosted by 10.7%, a smaller increase than in any year since 1990. But the departing Premier also said that China’s growth model was unsustainable and on top of that paired with a whole array of social issues, like the income gap, increasing pollution and a real estate bubble. read article
ReplyDeleteAlso in China, the SEC has been allowed to subpoena Deloitte’s China unit over accounting fraud at Chinese companies operating in the US. After initial co-operation between the American and Chinese securities regulators failed, this is a big step in terms of cross-border fraud investigations. read article
In other regulatory news, an undisclosed group of banks in the City of London have received a hat tip from law firm Shearman & Sterling that it was possible to fight the EU’s banker bonus cap [proposal] in court. read article
Until then, enter George Osborne.
Otherwise, Apple’s stock fell to a new 52-week low yesterday, dragging the company’s market cap down below $400bn for the first time in over a year.