Sunday, April 29, 2007

Thai market slammed by investment rules


China is attempting to further enliven is foreign exchange market. In that vein Beijing has approved six more banks.

1. Chine Everbright Bank - they give away toothpaste when you open up an account.

2. China Minsheng Bank

3. Huaxia Bankforeign-exchange.jpg

4. China Development Bank

5. Sumitomo Mitsu Bank Corporation's Shanghai Branch

6. Deutsche Bank's Shanghai Branch

Thirteen inter-bank market makers are domestic banks and eight are foreign-funded banks.

China now has 261 foreign exchange market members.

With the Chinese yuan doing its dance and more and more foreign businesses coming to China and Chinese heading overseas to do business, there is a need for more people to skim off the top when doing the exchanges.

I hated losing money when I exchanged yen to dollars to go home and then changed it back when I returned to Japan.

Exchanging money is just another big business. And now, China has more people doing it.

What do you think?



Thai market slammed by investment rules


An investor monitors an electronic board at a private trading floor in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006. Thai stocks plummeted nearly 9 percent Tuesday after the central bank announced rules to discourage foreign inflows late Monday in an attempt to stem the baht's surge. The Stock Exchange of Thailand's benchmark SET Index declined 63.65 points, or 8.7 percent, to a five-month low of 666.9 in midday trading. The hardest hit sectors were banking and oil and gas. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)Foreign investors bailed out of the Thai stock market in droves Tuesday, forcing Thailand’s military government to abandon just-announced measures aimed at stemming the country’s surging currency.




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