China’s super-long government bonds pushed higher on Monday after traders bet Beijing may scale back the maturity on its special-debt issuance to ease supply pressure. Yields on 30-year government notes slid as much as 3 basis points to 2.28% on Monday, on track for the lowest close in over a month, following a three basis point drop on Friday. Futures on 30-year bonds advanced as much as 0.5%, th...
China’s super-long government bonds pushed higher on Monday after traders bet Beijing may scale back the maturity on its special-debt issuance to ease supply pressure. Yields on 30-year government notes slid as much as 3 basis points to 2.28% on Monday, on track for the lowest close in over a month, following a three basis point drop on Friday. Futures on 30-year bonds advanced as much as 0.5%, the most in about three weeks. “We think the odds are high for a reduction of duration in special bond issuances” given the high yield levels and the wide 10- and 30-year yield spreads, said Becky Liu , head of China macro strategy at Standard Chartered Bank. With supply risks for ultra-long bonds likely fully — or even excessively — priced in as well as ample liquidity and weak equity sentiment, long-dated yields should grind lower, further flattening the yield curve, she added. The repricing comes ahead of China’s special bonds issuance program, which the government made routine every year since 2024, that acts as an off-budget fiscal resource to support major strategic projects and consumer spending. While the finance ministry has to yet to release an auction schedule or confirm tenors for this year’s 1.3 trillion yuan ($190 billion) plan, traders expect issuance to begin as early as this month. A move to shorten issuance may ease investor concerns over crowded supply in long-dated bonds, fears which had earlier pushed 30-year yields to 17-month highs in March. Investors have worried the market may struggle to absorb supply as funds rotate toward equities and as China’s easing deflation dampens demand for bonds. The market is now turning attention to the introduction of a 15-year tenor, Sun Binbin , an analyst at Caitong Securities, wrote in a note. Over the past two years, special debt was only issued in 20-, 30- and 50-year tenors, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The gains in China’s 30-year debt also deepens the market’s divergence with global peers, which were...
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Zhongxingcai Guanghua Certified Public Accountants LLP. Photo: Company website China’s securities regulator has imposed a record 243 million yuan ($35.6 million) penalty on Zhongxingcai Guanghua Certified Public Accountants LLP over audit failures tied to a major corporate fraud case. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said its Hebei bureau confiscated 32.6 million yuan in revenue a...
Zhongxingcai Guanghua Certified Public Accountants LLP. Photo: Company website China’s securities regulator has imposed a record 243 million yuan ($35.6 million) penalty on Zhongxingcai Guanghua Certified Public Accountants LLP over audit failures tied to a major corporate fraud case. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said its Hebei bureau confiscated 32.6 million yuan in revenue and imposed a 210 million yuan fine, while six certified public accountants were also fined, with two barred from the securities market for up to 10 years.
Singapore is at the sharp end of the energy crisis. Imported natural gas accounts for an estimated 95 per cent of the city state’s electricity generation. According to Nomura, Singapore is the fourth most vulnerable Asian economy to the energy shock emanating from the war in Iran, based on a set of criteria that includes the share of fossil fuels in energy consumption and the proportion of energy ...
Singapore is at the sharp end of the energy crisis. Imported natural gas accounts for an estimated 95 per cent of the city state’s electricity generation. According to Nomura, Singapore is the fourth most vulnerable Asian economy to the energy shock emanating from the war in Iran, based on a set of criteria that includes the share of fossil fuels in energy consumption and the proportion of energy imports from the Gulf. Last month, Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said the...
Guo Daohui. Photo: VCG Guo Daohui, a towering figure in Chinese jurisprudence who spent his later decades championing citizens’ rights and constitutional rule, died on April 11 at the age of 98. His passing marks the end of an era. Guo, along with Jiang Ping and Li Buyun, were widely revered as China’s “Three Elders of the Rule of Law.” Jiang died in December 2023 at 94, and Li followed in January...
Guo Daohui. Photo: VCG Guo Daohui, a towering figure in Chinese jurisprudence who spent his later decades championing citizens’ rights and constitutional rule, died on April 11 at the age of 98. His passing marks the end of an era. Guo, along with Jiang Ping and Li Buyun, were widely revered as China’s “Three Elders of the Rule of Law.” Jiang died in December 2023 at 94, and Li followed in January 2026 at 92. With Guo’s death, the triumvirate that laid the intellectual groundwork for China’s modern legal system has passed into history.