China and Australia will today be signing a landmark free-trade deal more than a decade in the making, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, opening up markets worth billions to Australia and loosening restrictions on Chinese investment.

沪港股票市场交易互联互通机制（沪港通）筹备逾七个月后终于在周一启航，09:30两地正式开市后仅几分钟，香港买卖上交所股票（沪股通）的每日额度已用去约一半，而内地买卖港交所股票（港股通）的每日额度则用了约3亿港元人民币。

International buyers snapped up Chinese stocks today at the debut of an exchange link that allows Hong Kong and Shanghai investors to trade shares on each other's bourses, a major step towards opening China's tightly controlled capital markets.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius will take on most of the partners from Boston law firm Bingham McCutchen after months of negotiations.

中国已宣布出资400亿美元成立丝路基金，推动“一带一路”(丝绸之路经济带和21世纪海上丝绸之路)建设。中国证券报周四报导，海上丝绸之路银行亦正在筹建，其拟注册资金将从原来的50亿元人民币进行更多追加，并推动民营资本参与。

China plans to establish a new bank to fund development of the "New Silk Road," pouring billions of dollars into projects to revive intercontinental land routes and maritime links through central Asia, state media reported Thursday.

The global economic recovery is unstable and nations in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc should speed up free-trade talks to spur growth, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's finance services arm "will definitely go public," Executive Chairman Jack Ma said on Tuesday, eyeing a mainland China listing for the e-commerce company's crown jewel.

China and the United States have reached a breakthrough in talks on eliminating duties on information technology products, a deal that could pave the way for the first major tariff-cutting agreement at the World Trade Organisation in 17 years.

China's stock exchanges have met the necessary requirements for same-day trading, the Shanghai Stock Exchange said on Monday, as regulators prepare to better integrate mainland and Hong Kong stock markets ahead of a cross-border investment pilot scheme.