BEIJING (Reuters) – Growth in China’s real estate investment in October cooled to a 10-month low and home sales fell again, as developers held back expansion plans in the face of broadly softening eco… (…
Monthly Archives For November 2018
China Jan-Oct property investment up 9.7 pct y/y
BEIJING, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Real estate investment in China rose 9.7 percent in the first 10 months of 2018 versus the same period a year earlier, official data showed on Wednesday. The growth was…
China industrial output, investment beat forecasts; retail sales miss
BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported a mixed bag of economic data for October on Wednesday, but industrial output and investment grew faster than expected, suggesting a flurry of support measures … ( read original story…
China’s latest financial data paints a bleak economic outlook amid trade war with US
China’s financial condition weakened in October, pointing to a further deceleration in the world’s second-biggest economy amid the trade war with the United States. While Beijing has been pressing the … ( read original story…
Journalists barred from Morneau speech in Beijing a day after Trudeau praises free press
Just a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke out in Paris in support of a free press — an institution he said needs to be “free-thinking, independent, rigorous, robust, respected” — Canada’s f… (…
China’s premier ‘will not stop’ reforms, reassures peace in South China Sea
SINGAPORE — China’s premier sought Tuesday to reassure its neighbours that Beijing will push ahead with reforms needed to support growth across the region and also keep the peace in contested waters … ( read…
Small is Best in Global Banking – as Universal Banks Fail to Deliver – Lafferty Banking 500
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Far from being the universal banking giants of Wall Street, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo or Beijing that typically combine commercial and investment banking activities, the … ( read original story …)
Wilbur Ross: ‘The issues with China are not just tariffs’
“The president and President Xi had a very constructive conversation couple of weeks ago,” Ross told Yahoo Finance’s editor-in-chief … Trump drops the further escalation of tariffs on China to 25%. … ( read original…
Third China-UAE Conference on Islamic Banking & Finance Concludes Successfully Amid International Acclaim
The third China-UAE conference on Islamic Banking and Finance (CUCIBF III) concluded recently, with the participation of leading economic experts, bankers, decision and policy makers, investors and Is… ( read original story …)
China will step up tax cuts: finance minister
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will study and implement tax cuts of a larger scale and more significant fee reductions for companies, the country’s finance minister Liu Kun said on Monday. This year, China … (…
China’s NetEase raises $600M for its music streaming business
As Tencent Music, China’s largest streaming firm, reportedly stalls on its proposed U.S. IPO, one of its closest challengers is doubling down. NetEase Cloud Music, a rival operated by games and … ( read original…
Beijing dismisses ‘hearsay’ on Muslim internment
After originally denying the existence of the centres, Beijing has repeatedly described the camps as vocational “training centres” that were built to help people drawn to extremism to stay away from t… ( read original…
China’s biggest financial risk is the US
In its new annual financial stability report, China’s central bank has again sounded the alarm that “grey rhino” risks — clear and present dangers that are often neglected — continue to threaten the e… (…
