China maintains a strict censorship regime, banning access to foreign news outlets, search engines and social media including Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O). ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For June 2017
Paris climate deal: EU and China rebuff Trump
“The EU and China consider the Paris agreement as an historic achievement further accelerating the irreversible global low greenhouse gas emission and climate resilient development,” the draft document says. “The Paris Agreement is proof that…
China and Europe are moving forward without Trump
China, meanwhile, is ready to pounce … Start your day right with the latest news driving global markets, from major stock movers and key economic headlines to important events on the calendar. Daily newsletter, Sunday…
China data protection tightened in new laws
International business groups have appealed against its implementation. In a letter to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) seen by the Reuters news agency, a group representing European business interests warned that it would lead…
Favorable News Coverage Somewhat Likely to Impact China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited (CHU) Share Price
Headlines about China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited (NYSE:CHU) have been trending positive recently, AlphaOne Sentiment Analysis reports. AlphaOne, a service of Accern, scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news…
China’s financial clampdown will continue — for now
The financial crackdown in China in the past three months flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that nothing would be allowed to happen to rock the boat ahead of the important 19th Communist…
Can monetary policy solve China’s soaring leverage?
China’s leverage ratio — the ratio of debt to assets or equity — is rising at an alarming pace and approaching a historical high. High leverage ratios have in the past caused concern that financial…
China manufacturing grew more than expected in May, official survey shows
ANZ’s senior China economist Betty Wang said in a note that the bank expects infrastructure investment to take a “big role” in supporting growth in the months ahead. “Infrastructure investment appears to have decoupled from…
Why China’s Debt Downgrade is a Tempest in a Teacup
It’s easy to see how these “scary” headline numbers could be used to frighten investors away, especially when those figures get taken completely out of context from what’s actually happening in China today. First, financial…
China’s Zhong An aims to raise at least $1 billion in Hong Kong IPO – sources
HONG KONG Zhong An Online Property and Casualty Insurance, China’s first online-only insurer, has resumed a plan to raise $1 billion or more in a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) in the second half…
Special Report: ‘Ghost collateral’ haunts loans across China’s banking system
SHANGHAI The banker at the other end of the phone line was furious, recalled Shanghai lawyer Wang Chaoyu. A pile of steel pledged as collateral for a loan of almost $3 million from his bank,…