Summary China's president pledged support for African panda issuers High debt loads among economies seen dampening issuance Concerns abound over liquidity of Chinese domestic markets NAIROBI/SHANGHAI, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Plans by African governments to raise money on China's domestic debt markets via so-called panda bonds could be undone by their heavy debt loads and a wider lack of market infrastructure, investors and analysts said. African governments seeking to tap fresh pools of money...

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China wants its army of mom-and-pop investors to take corporate fraudsters to task with landmark class action lawsuits, but heavy government involvement means they are not likely to be as common as in other legal systems, lawyers and investors said. The legal framework, which follows a series of scandals and official vows to crack down on corporate malfeasance, is the latest move to deepen and improve capital markets in China, where 80% of trading is conducted...

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The crash in U.S. crude prices has turned a reliable commodity less than worthless and given fresh urgency to bearish voices, who say it sounds alarm bells for global growth and are bracing for a catastrophic collapse in asset prices. Markets are already unnerved at the specter of traders paying to get rid of May futures contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude , as storage tanks at the delivery point in Oklahoma quickly fill with unused fuel. But...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported a sharp fall in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infections continued to rise in other countries. Chinese authorities said the mainland had 397 new confirmed cases on Friday, down from 889 a day earlier. The numbers surged elsewhere, though, with outbreaks worsening in South Korea, Iran, Italy and Lebanon. In South Korea, authorities said on...