BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s property investment growth slowed in April while sales marked their biggest fall in six months as higher borrowing costs and increased curbs on buyers weighed on demand, backing views that a…
Monthly Archives For May 2018
China’s financial risk greater than official numbers suggest, Beijing adviser says
The financial risk facing China is far larger than official numbers suggest and Beijing must do more to prevent the situation becoming a crisis, a senior adviser to the government warned on Monday. In a…
BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Global Retail Brands 2018
Amazon, McDonald’s & Alibaba top BrandZ’s Top Most Valuable Global Retail Brands inaugural ranking in 2018. China’s JD.com and Suning also make the cut. The most valuable retail brands in the world are growing their…
Aussie brands look beyond Chinese marketplaces
Azoya Consulting and Frost & Sullivan surveyed 1,000 cross border shoppers in China and 100 international brand owners in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and Europe for their new report assessing the size and…
China Tower Files for Hong Kong IPO, May Raise $10 Billion
China Tower Corp., the state-owned wireless infrastructure operator, filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong that could match the city’s biggest since 2010. While the world’s largest telecom tower service provider didn’t give…
Soft China April investment, retail sales suggest economy losing steam
Sino-U.S. trade frictions have yet to show an impact on China’s economy, the statistics bureau said. But while April exports and imports were surprisingly solid, business surveys point to a sharp weakening in export order…
China Jan-April property investment up 10.3 percent year on year
BEIJING (Reuters) – Real estate investment in China rose 10.3 percent in the first four months of 2018 from a year earlier, official data showed on Tuesday, while property sales softened in the face of…
China April Property Investment Remains Firm, Sales Dip on Increased Curbs
BEIJING — China’s property investment growth eased in April as higher borrowing costs and increased curbs on buyers weighed on demand, backing views that a key driver of the economy is gradually losing momentum. Real…
China Makes Progress On Shadow Lending Battle
The data differs from a survey conducted by Reuters, which found a slight decrease in new yuan loans issued in China last month. Reports noted that the data also showed that Chinese officials are making…
China’s further opening-up to help maintain international trade system: World Bank official
File Photo: Aerial photo taken on March 23, 2018 shows a dock near the founding site of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in south China’s Hainan Province. The BFA annual conference will take place in…
China’s Top State-Run Bank Launches First India-Dedicated Investment Fund
Beijing: The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a top state-run Chinese bank has launched China’s first India-dedicated publicly offered investment fund, urging the Chinese to invest heavily stating that the Indian economy is entering…
Former UBS China President Joins Cryptocurrency Company as CEO
Karen Chen, the former president of UBS China Ltd., has been appointed chief executive officer … The group includes Coinsuper, a token exchange, as well as units that provide private-banking, over-the-counter trading and consulting services…
China and the U.S.: A clash of techno-nationalists
U.S. trade hawks fail to grasp the record of contemporary history, which demonstrates that technology bans imposed by the West are more often than not counterproductive when directed at a capable country. For example, China…