Ant Group’s world record-setting initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong has been suspended.
The Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges made the announcement Tuesday.

Ant Group’s controller Jack Ma, executive chairman Eric Jing and CEO Simon Hu were summoned and interviewed by regulators in China.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange said Ant Group reported “significant issues,” which means it may not meet the conditions for listing or “information disclosure requirements.”


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• The U.S. deficit is burgeoning and it’s set to grow much bigger with a planned second stimulus package to beat the pandemic fallout.
  
• The additional costs of funding the package will have to come from issuing more U.S. Treasurys — but that raises the question of who will buy them, given that China, previously the top purchaser of the Treasurys, is cutting its holdings.
  

(CNN)President Donald Trump closed out his bid for a second term with a false warning that "cheating" in the key state of Pennsylvania could lead to violence in the streets. It was his latest attempt to tarnish the integrity of an election clash with Democrat Joe Biden that nearly 100 million Americans have already validated by casting early votes in the middle of the pandemic.

Trump's inflammatory behavior threatened to exacerbate already fraught national tensions amid fears of civil unrest that prompted businesses in some cities to board up their premises. Trump will spend Election Night behind a high iron fence that is now ringing the White House.

The President's final act of the campaign threatens to rock a surreal election at a destabilizing moment in history, with the US battling a once-in-a century public health crisis, a consequent economic slump and embroiled in an unresolved racial reckoning. But the massive turnout already and the potential of new records being set on Tuesday suggest voters are taking their civic duty extraordinarily seriously.

Trump told reporters that a Supreme Court decision allowing Pennsylvania to count mail-in votes that arrive up to three days after the election would lead to cheating at a "very high level" and was "very dangerous." In a later tweet, tagged as possibly misleading by Twitter, Trump warned it could "induce violence in the streets." At a rally in Wisconsin he claimed the decision could "put our country in danger."

His gambit was a fitting coda for nearly four years in office so far, in which he has constantly stretched the pillars of American democracy almost to breaking point and a campaign in which he has repeatedly spread misinformation about a "rigged" election.


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• Lurid details of the former couple’s relationship were heard in a London court in the summer.
  

PETALING JAYA: An aide to Dr Mahathir Mohamad claims that the former prime minister’s new party Pejuang and Maszlee Malik parted ways after the latter decided to support opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

In a Facebook post, the aide said that the Simpang Renggam MP had allegedly signed a statutory declaration (SD) throwing his support for Anwar as prime minister.

“Maszlee had signed the SD despite having attended a Pejuang meeting where its members agreed not to support anyone associated with kleptocracy, and to wait and see who supported Anwar before the party decided on a stance,” the aide said.

According to the aide, Maszlee had also visited Mahathir’s house for dinner the night after he allegedly signed the SD in support of Anwar.

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