BEIJING (Reuters) – Property investment by Chinese companies plunged in January as authorities tightened restrictions on capital outflows to support the ailing yuan currency and ease pressure on the country’s foreign exchange reserves. Investment by…
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Steel rebound fizzling as China's property market slows
Steelmakers aren’t out of the woods yet. A year-long resurgence risks fading as a slowdown in China’s property market deepens, exposing bullish sentiment as overblown, according to a U.S.-based hedge fund manager and former Citigroup…
Exclusive: China's top developers plan to invest more in land this year – Reuters survey
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences forecasts China’s property investment will rise 5.4 percent in 2017. Increasing competition for land in major cities will not only pose a challenge to authorities who want to avoid…
China property stocks priced for disaster are bargain to Goldman
China’s property developers are in far better shape than their rock-bottom stock valuations would have you believe. So say top analysts from firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. As curbs to cool…
How Two Dealmakers Solved The China Problem
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump promised to end what he called “China’s outrageous theft of intellectual property.” And as president, he may indeed decide to levy tariffs or other punitive measures against China.…
Bid to shrink China’s property bubble ‘puts key growth driver at risk’
Beijing’s focus on deflating China’s asset bubbles and eliminating financial risks is hurting one of its key growth drivers, the property sector, analysts said. Property attracts nearly one fifth of China’s fixed-asset investment and directly…
UPDATE 2-China 2016 property investment rises 6.9 pct y/y, sales jump to 7-year high
* 2016 property investment +6.9 pct y/y, sales volume +22.5 pct * New housing starts +12.5 pct in December * December investment, sales rise strongly vs Nov (Adds analyst comment, quotes from NBS official) By…
China January factory activity expands for sixth month at modest pace but risks loom
A slowing property market could also dent China’s industrial activity this year, dampening demand for building materials from glass to steel. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released on Wednesday stood at 51.3 in January,…
China Jan factory activity expands for 6th month at modest pace
However, some analysts question whether the growth will be sustainable once the impact of earlier stimulus measures begins to wear off and as the property market starts to cool, which is widely expected. China’s economy…
China’s dodgy $1 billion in property
Australian financial intelligence officials last year investigated more than $3.3 billion of suspect transfers by Chinese investors — including $1bn invested in property — raising concerns that Australia’s foreign ownership laws are being sidestepped ……
Xishuangbanna in a property boom as Beijing chokes on smog
In the last year, a new army has stampeded its way toward this prefecture of less than 1 million people, on China’s southern border with Myanmar and Laos. They are property buyers — households with…
China boom for Manchester property
Property experts in Manchester are hoping that the Chinese New Year and Spring Golden Week will bring them a boom in business. That’s according to specialist publication opp.today, who report that flight bookings from China…
China's property market to see slower growth in 2017: Moody's
Beijing: China’s overheated property market is likely to show a slower pace of sales growth this year due to tightened regulations, a top credit ratings agency has said. “We expect nationwide contracted sales in 2017…
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