BEIJING (Reuters) -China's consumer prices rose for the first time in six months due to spending linked to the Lunar New Year, offering some reprieve for the world's second-biggest economy grappling with weak consumer sentiment, while factory-gate prices fell again. The consumer price index (CPI) climbed 0.7% year-on-year in February, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on...

HONG KONG, March 9 (Reuters) - U.S. asset manager Matthews International Capital Management is closing its Shanghai office, a company statement and a source with direct knowledge said, the latest withdrawal of a foreign money manager amid difficult market conditions. Other major global financial institutions, such as Morgan Stanley ( MS ), have trimmed their teams, as the blue-chip CSI300...

(Reuters) - The United States is weighing sanctions on several Chinese tech companies, including chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies, in a bid to further restrain China's development of advanced semiconductors, Bloomberg News said on Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, it said the commerce department's bureau of industry and security was considering adding ChangXin to the so-called entity list that...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing ( BA ) said on Friday it believes required documents involving the opening and closing of a key part during production of a 737 MAX 9 that failed during a mid-air emergency were never created, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The National Transportation Safety Board said last month the door plug that flew off...