Overseas investors sold more Japan’s super-long government bonds than they bought for the first time in well over a year as the market grappled with concerns about inflation and increased fiscal spending. Foreigners offloaded a net ¥81.3 billion ($512 million) of JGBs with original maturities of more than a decade in April, data from the Japan Securities Dealers Association showed on Wednesday. Th...
Overseas investors sold more Japan’s super-long government bonds than they bought for the first time in well over a year as the market grappled with concerns about inflation and increased fiscal spending. Foreigners offloaded a net ¥81.3 billion ($512 million) of JGBs with original maturities of more than a decade in April, data from the Japan Securities Dealers Association showed on Wednesday. That marks the first net selling since December 2024. Investors abroad have become increasingly influential in Japan’s debt market after the Bank of Japan began normalizing monetary policy and scaling back bond purchases. Rising borrowing costs are keeping policymakers on edge, with Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama signaling sensitivity to market conditions in compiling a potential supplementary budget. The selling “underscores the fragility of Japan’s bond market,” said Shinichiro Kadota , head of Japan foreign exchange and rates strategy at Barclays Securities Japan Ltd. in Tokyo. “Combined with concerns over fiscal expansion and fears that the BOJ is behind the curve, the selling has become a factor driving yields higher.” Japan’s benchmark 30-year bond yield climbed this week to the highest since this tenor was first sold in 1999. Meanwhile, life and casualty insurers — traditional investors in super-long bonds — became net buyers of these tenors last month for the first time since July, purchasing ¥327.2 billion, the JSDA data showed.
Investors will soon have another way to play the wild gyrations in South Korea’s stock market. The nation’s main equity exchange is planning to roll out weekly options on single stocks in June, expiring on Thursdays, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named as the information isn’t public. The bourse is also working on launching monthly and weekly contracts on exchang...
Investors will soon have another way to play the wild gyrations in South Korea’s stock market. The nation’s main equity exchange is planning to roll out weekly options on single stocks in June, expiring on Thursdays, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named as the information isn’t public. The bourse is also working on launching monthly and weekly contracts on exchange-traded funds later this year, and on adding Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday expiries for weeklies tied to the Kospi 200 and Kosdaq 150 indexes, the people said. Those currently expire only on Mondays and Thursdays. A representative for Korea Exchange declined to comment. The new contracts will give investors more tools to bet on Korean equities, which have been on a tear. Boosted by heavyweights Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the benchmark Kospi index has surged about 70% this year, making it the best-performing major equity gauge globally. The market has become so popular that Interactive Brokers Group Inc. began offering US retail traders direct access to Korean shares. Global exchanges have been increasing their derivatives offerings to tap growing investor appetite for more flexible, short-term trading instruments. In the US, contracts expiring daily now account for most of the S&P 500 Index options volume. In Hong Kong, the bourse launched weeklies on 10 single stocks in 2024 and has been boosting their number since. People familiar with the discussions recently said Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. is now working on introducing options expiring within a day.
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涉盜內地按摩院顧客信用卡買手機套現40萬 9人被捕包括接贓店主 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】警方搗破信用卡盜竊集團,拘捕九人,包括兩名接贓的店舖東主。 60歲疑犯黑布蒙頭,他持雙程證,相信是集團主腦,由探員帶走調查。行動中檢獲信用卡及手機等。 警方稱過去一個多月接獲18宗信用卡盜竊案,報案人都曾經光顧內地的按摩院,信用卡遭盜用購買手機再放售套現,涉及約40萬元。經調查拘捕七男兩女,包括在旺角經營手機店舖接收贓物的兩名東主。
周天行獲律政司委任為刑事檢控專員 曾負責多宗國安案件主控工作 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】律政司委任周天行接任刑事檢控專員,明天履新。 周天行本身是副刑事檢控專員,近年負責多宗國安案件的主控工作...
周天行獲律政司委任為刑事檢控專員 曾負責多宗國安案件主控工作 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】律政司委任周天行接任刑事檢控專員,明天履新。 周天行本身是副刑事檢控專員,近年負責多宗國安案件的主控工作,包括黎智英案。律政司司長林定國形容他經驗豐富,致力追求公義,深信他能帶領刑事檢控科。至於現任的楊美琪明天開始退休前休假。
Talks between Samsung Electronics Co. and its largest labor union broke down, with the union telling local media it will go ahead with a work stoppage as planned, which looks set to disrupt operations at the world’s largest memory chipmaker. Days of stop-and-start negotiations failed to yield progress, putting the union on track to begin a strike on Thursday, Yonhap reported. Samsung faces the pro...
Talks between Samsung Electronics Co. and its largest labor union broke down, with the union telling local media it will go ahead with a work stoppage as planned, which looks set to disrupt operations at the world’s largest memory chipmaker. Days of stop-and-start negotiations failed to yield progress, putting the union on track to begin a strike on Thursday, Yonhap reported. Samsung faces the prospect of production delays as well as complications accelerating development of its next-generation semiconductors. The collapse in negotiations puts the entire global technology supply chain at risk because Samsung is the world’s biggest supplier of the chips that go into devices from data center servers to smartphones and electric vehicles. The dispute also underscores simmering tensions across Korea as workers push for a greater share of the profits that companies like Samsung and SK Hynix Inc. are deriving from a global AI infrastructure boom. Read More: Four Scenarios for Chipmaker Samsung’s Labor Dispute: Explainer The union is demanding that Samsung scrap an existing bonus cap, allocate 15% of its operating profit to worker bonuses and formalize those terms in employment contracts. Labor leaders pointed to SK Hynix, which last year agreed to allocate 10% of annual operating profit to a performance bonus pool. Samsung had proposed allocating 10% of operating profit to bonuses, along with a one-time special compensation package that exceeds industry standards. Company executives argued that the union’s demands would be difficult to sustain over the long term. “There are mounting concerns that any significant production disruptions or operational uncertainty at Samsung Electronics could place additional strain on the global memory semiconductor market, potentially worsening supply bottlenecks, price volatility, procurement uncertainty and broader supply chain instability,” the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea said in a statement this month. The Bank of Korea foreca...
Dylan from New Mexico asked Dave Ramsey a fair question on a recent episode of The Ramsey Show: if active funds rarely beat the index, why bother with Ramsey’s four-fund split across small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, and international? Ramsey’s answer cut past the math and landed on something most investors underweight: their own behavior. The Behavior ... Dave Ramsey on Why Index Funds vs. Mutual Fu...
Dylan from New Mexico asked Dave Ramsey a fair question on a recent episode of The Ramsey Show: if active funds rarely beat the index, why bother with Ramsey’s four-fund split across small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, and international? Ramsey’s answer cut past the math and landed on something most investors underweight: their own behavior. The Behavior ... Dave Ramsey on Why Index Funds vs. Mutual Funds Misses the Real Point About Building Wealth
海關屯門緝毒檢600萬元懷疑大麻花 拘33歲物流工人 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】海關在屯門拘捕一名男子,檢獲600萬元懷疑大麻花。 涉嫌販毒被捕的33歲男子報稱物流工人,他被黑布蒙頭帶走。海關...
海關屯門緝毒檢600萬元懷疑大麻花 拘33歲物流工人 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】海關在屯門拘捕一名男子,檢獲600萬元懷疑大麻花。 涉嫌販毒被捕的33歲男子報稱物流工人,他被黑布蒙頭帶走。海關星期二晚上在屯門進行緝毒行動,截查該名男子,在他手持的兩個袋及附近工廈單位,合共檢獲31公斤懷疑大麻花及毒品包裝工具,估計毒品供應新界區。
世界海關組織亞太區首腦會議閉幕 香港將續任亞太區副主席兩年 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】世界海關組織亞太區首腦會議最後一日舉行。海關關長陳子達會後表示,香港將續任世界海關組織亞太區副主席兩年,提...
世界海關組織亞太區首腦會議閉幕 香港將續任亞太區副主席兩年 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】世界海關組織亞太區首腦會議最後一日舉行。海關關長陳子達會後表示,香港將續任世界海關組織亞太區副主席兩年,提名於下月正式通過。 海關關長陳子達:「香港海關將於2026至2028年繼續擔任這個重要崗位,這個任命充分展現亞太地區各個海關成員對香港海關工作的信任及肯定,衷心感謝各成員支持。香港海關會繼續發揮橋樑作用,深化合作推動區域持續而有意義的正面發展,會更加積極發揮推廣者及促成者角色,致力提升香港在世界海關組織的話語權,說好香港故事。」 陳子達稱,今次會議有約120名地區海關首長或代表出席,通過多項關鍵區域決策,包括新一屆地區發展策略計劃等,亦與巴基斯坦簽署合作備忘錄,進一步推動創新科技應用。