Financial Times - First batch of IPOs under streamlined China listings rules soars 96% on debut

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The Financial Times says shares in 10 Chinese companies soared almost 100% on average on Monday as the first initial public offerings under a streamlined listings regime debuted in Shanghai and Shenzhen. 

Mr Biden’s trip to Northern Ireland is also a focus of the front page, with the paper leading on a parade that took place in Londonderry on Monday, organised by Republicans opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. “Police had warned of possible violence,” the paper notes, adding petrol bombs were thrown at a police van.

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