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China faces bleak holidays over ‘Covid zero’

  Bloomberg Chinese holidaymakers face another holiday season ruined by virus outbreaks and controls, with the government’s stringent Covid Zero restrictions and fears of infection expected to keep many people at home during the upcoming Labor Day break. Travel was already down in March, when the biggest Covid-19 outbreak in two years prompted officials to lock down major cities like …

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UBS becomes third global bank to lose China boss this month

  Bloomberg UBS Group AG’s David Chin is stepping down as China country head, the third senior executive at a global lender in the nation to exit this month as bankers are hobbled by a strict Covid Zero strategy and a crackdown on private enterprise. After two years in the role, Chin will be succeeded by Eugene Qian, chairman of …

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HSBC warns of China headwinds, more real estate loan losses

  Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc, the largest foreign bank in China, warned of further potential hits from the nation’s battered real estate market as defaults continue to climb amid a worsening Covid-19 outbreak. “It’s a big call to say that we’ve seen the worst,” Ewen Stevenson, HSBC’s chief financial officer, said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “Do I think …

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