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GlobalCapital today launches its poll to decide its Bond Awards - the premier accolades for issuers, banks and other participants in the international bond markets, which are decided entirely by market opinion. We invite you to vote to choose the bond issuers, investment banks, investors and other market participants that have contributed most impressively to the market during the past year.

In this round-up, Huawei filed a lawsuit against the US government, China’s foreign reserves rose for the fourth month, and the International Monetary Fund can now invest in Chinese domestic bonds and stocks

In this special round-up on China’s annual ‘Two Sessions’ parliamentary meeting, premier Li Keqiang promised a bigger tax cut than expected, increased the local government special purpose bond quota and demanded large commercial banks to boost their lending to small enterprises

The root of arbitrage is the same thing being priced differently in two markets. As markets have got bigger and more sophisticated, arbitrage has become harder to find.

To quote the late, great Karl Lagerfeld: “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat.” I only wish today’s youth would take those words of wisdom to heart.

Banks outside the top five in the league tables, especially those operating in emerging market bonds, often sing a song that would tug at the heart strings if set against a solo violin. They claim that the league tables for CEEMEA deals often do not represent the banks that do the bulk of business in each region because the huge jumbo deals that occasionally spring up skew the results wildly in favour of the big firms. But the numbers show that claim is utter nonsense.

There is a fantastic case for owning Tesla shares, but investors cannot realistically asses its merits when the price is prone to huge daily moves, often driven by the whim of its errant leader. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) needs to muzzle Musk.

Emmanuel Macron has called for the creation of a European Climate Bank to finance the European Union’s “ecological transition” towards a climate friendly economy. While the French president’s plea for such financing is right and urgent, creating yet another European supranational entity is not the most efficient solution, especially as the EU already has a world leader in sustainable lending — the European Investment Bank.

In this round-up, the US trade representative’s office announced the delay of a China tariff increase, the Shanghai Stock Exchange released detailed rules for its tech board and China’s annual planning session gets set to address issues including economic growth targets and foreign market access

In this round-up, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) put pressure on banks to provide more private sector financing, the US trade representative said he was not yet satisfied with China’s trade promises and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) planned to increase cross-border capital market deals.

In this round-up, China’s benchmark CSI300 index saw its biggest daily rise in three years after trade negotiations and deleveraging boosted investor sentiment, service imports and exports rose in 2018 and a Bloomberg survey indicated Hong Kong and Singapore investors are optimistic on Chinese onshore bonds.