WATCH LIVE | Jamie Bartlett laid to restJamie Bartlett died on Monday last week. Gold treads water between lower bond yields and a stronger dollarThe market has yet to react to lifting of lockdowns in Shanghai, China JAMIE CARR: Alibaba escapes the lockdownAfter the regulatory onslaught that saw trillions of dollars wiped off the valuation of China’s top companies, Alibaba’s first-quarter earnings were a rare surprise on the upside. The podcast features interviews with certified financial planners and wealth managers to answer readers’ pressing financial questions. The Money Savvy podcast is hosted by Boitumelo Ntsoko. After the regulatory onslaught that saw trillions of dollars wiped off the valuation of China’s top companies, Alibaba’s fi. President Xi Jinping has been flexing his muscles ahead of his attempt to secure an unprecedented third term in office at the party conference later this year, first by reining in the private sector under the banner of his “common prosperity” doctrine, and more recently by his aggressive pursuit of zero Covid, which caused Shanghai port volumes to shrink by 20% in April alone. This was a level of diplomacy rarely seen since the opening salvoes of the Opium War, and the days are long gone when a colonial nabob could pitch up in a uniform reminiscent of a Neapolitan ice cream seller and demand allegiance to the great she-wallah over the seas. It is safe to say that the Chinese Communist Party leadership has not always been universally admired, notably when Prince Charles described them as a “group of appalling old waxworks” after the handover of Hong Kong. After the regulatory onslaught that saw trillions of dollars wiped off the valuation of China’s top companies, Alibaba’s first-quarter earnings were a rare surprise on the upside.Īfter the regulatory onslaught that saw trillions of dollars wiped off the valuation of China’s top companies, Alibaba’s first-quarter earnings were a rare surprise on the upside

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