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Balkan States Woo Chinese Investors
November 30th, 2015
At the ’16 + 1′ summit, which opened on Tuesday, China is deepening its interest in Southeastern Europe, investing in trade, finance, agriculture and infrastructure projects. The 4th annual Economic and Trade Forum between China and 16 countries of ...
Chinese Debt Snowball Gaining Momentum
November 30th, 2015
Financial crises can happen quickly, like the bursting of the tech stock bubble in early 2000, or slowly, like the late-1980s junk bond bust. The shape of the crash depends mostly on the asset in question: Equities can plunge ...
Why rich Chinese are buying vineyards, islands in cash
November 23rd, 2015
A hundred years ago, Amadeo Modigliani painted a portrait of his wild British mistress splayed across a red velvet throw, nude, her hips arched, her kohl-rimmed eyes shut. The artist was hardly trying to play it safe – Paris ...
‘Too big to fail’ Chinese banks face $400 billion capital call
November 11th, 2015
China‘s four biggest banks may have to raise up to $400 billion to meet new global capital rules, an onerous task that could pressure them to slow down lending at a time when Beijing wants them to help prop ...
Asia Pacific stock markets continue slide as Chinese inflation weakens
November 10th, 2015
Investors have taken fright at the prospect that the US Fed could raise interest rates at the point when China is experiencing persistently weak demand Stock markets in Asia Pacific have continued to slide as the spectre of higher borrowing ...
London Wants to Become the Center of Chinese Currency Trading
October 20th, 2015
PBOC official said to view London as likely renminbi hub Euronext study expects $5 trillion of Chinese investment Three years ago, Chinese officials said U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron had “seriously damaged” relations by meeting with the Dalai Lama, the ...
UK ‘needs Chinese investment’, ambassador says
October 19th, 2015
China‘s ambassador to the UK has said that the “UK needs Chinese investment”. Liu Xiaoming was speaking on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show the day before the start of President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK. He said the ...
Oil prices rise as firm Chinese seasonal demand offsets weak Japan data
September 25th, 2015
Oil markets rose on Friday as strong seasonal demand from China outweighed weak consumer data from Japan, although analysts said that the slowing global economic outlook meant that oil prices would likely remain low for months to come. While ...
Chinese shares lead Asia lower on economic fears
September 14th, 2015
Mainland Chinese shares led the rest of the region lower as a raft of government data over the weekend pointed to more signs of weakness in the Chinese economy. Growth in both fixed-asset investment, up 10.9% in August from a ...
U.S. sanctions against Chinese firms could be next week
September 4th, 2015
The United States is preparing to sanction Chinese companies connected to the cyber theft of U.S. intellectual property as early as next week, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The FT cited three U.S. officials as saying the sanctions ...
