December 3, 2020
01 Top Story New threat to US-listed China firms
02 E-lender crackdown
Authorities say online lending boom is over as lenders will have to restructure, or have already done so, because of strict new rules to be imposed by Beijing.
03 ATF TV Hyundai unveils all-electric car
South Korean automaker will use in-house battery as it jostles for position in EV market.
04 Asia Markets
Nikkei 225 climbs 0.03% to 26,809.37; Hang Seng Index rises 0.7% to 26,728.50; CSI300 slides 0.2% to 3,442.14
05 ATF Big Picture
Qualcomm delights Chinese mobile companies with new chip. But Huawei won't be using it, unless Joe Biden has a good reason to drop Trump sanctions.
06 Comment
"Biden is expected to be much more cooperative compared with the Trump administration, fostering optimism for an Asian recovery. We expect to see a global recovery led by China in 2021 which is likely to spread to other Asian countries."
Lale Akoner, market strategist at BNY Mellon Investment Management
07 Let yields rise
Bank of Japan's Suzuki says central bank should allow long bonds to drop in bid to make stimulus work .
08 Mixed data from Asia
Key purchasing managers' index shows solid expansion in Mainland despite sporadic outbreaks of coronavirus, while Hong Kong and Japan struggle to reboot.
