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China's Communist Party turns 100 this week, plus Wall Street enlists individual investors to help price initial stock offerings.

Stay tuned for this week's edition of The Views Room.

Welcome to thesroom. Welcome to the Viewsroom. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, the financial

commentary wing of Reuters News, coming to you from Europe.

Century ago this week, the Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai's French concession.

Now, the institution which brought the world's such

revolutionaries as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping has never been so popular at home or so resented

abroad. Its leaders are experts at the nuances of control and long on ambition. Under current

President Xi Jinping, the CCP has strode boldly on the world stage.

It has founded multilateral lending institutions, pushed the yuan into the IMF's currency basket,

and poured money into overseas infrastructure under the Belt and Road Initiative.

Back home, it's eliminated absolute poverty by its own measures, and it promises to be carbon

neutral by 2060.

But as our Hong Kong columnist Pete Sweeney tells Peter Thal Larson this week, the party is

dangerously running short on new ideas.

After that, I speak to Lauren Silva Loughlin in New York.

She wrote a piece this week looking at how Wall Street banks are tapping into the little guys

to better price initial public stock offerings.

By allocating a slice of IPOs to individuals via the Robin Hood and other apps,

Goldman Sachs and others are hoping to capture yet another signal of demand

that could help their customers avoid leaving money on the table when they go public.

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