(Note: Weidai (WEI) is a candidate for inclusion in my personal IPO portfolio.) Hangzhou, China-based Weidai was founded in 2011 to develop and operate an automated cloud-based platform that … ( read original story …)
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China Renaissance buyback aggravates IPO botch
HONG KONG, Nov 7 (Reuters Breakingviews) – China Renaissance’s buyback aggravates a botched Hong Kong float. Roughly a month after its pared-down initial public offering, the $1.3 billion boutique tec… ( read original story …)
China’s Ruyi, pretender to LVMH’s throne, plots more ‘affordable luxury’ deals
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s acquisitive apparel firm Shandong Ruyi is targeting more global deals involving “affordable luxury” brands, under a push to establish the first high-end … ( read original story …)
China won’t set targets for individual banks’ loans to private firms: state media
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will not set specific targets for each bank on how much loans should be given to private firms, and banks’ credit assessment standards will not be compromised, state-owned Ch… ( read…
In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs. Or Make Their Own.
Sui-Lee Wee has been a correspondent for The New York Times in the Beijing bureau since October 2016. She covers business in China, Chinese consumers, health care and the intersection of demographics … ( read…
China calling: the new frontier for smartphone brands
China is not only the world’s biggest smartphone market by sales volume, it is also the most unique. Dominated by homegrown brands Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi, which together account for more than 6… (…
China property: if they tell you it’s a bear market, it’s bull
In a city, and a country, where the bizarre often feels commonplace, and the commonplace bizarre, the South China Morning Post runs some eye-catching headlines. Just in the last week we have had polic… (…
China’s Xi Jinping revives Maoist call for ‘self-reliance’
Even as Mr Xi has sought to position China as a champion of globalisation amid the US retreat into protectionism, the call for “self-reliance” highlights how Mr Xi is also advocating mercantilist poli… ( read…
How’s China’s Opening to the Financial Sector Going?
Last year, China pledged to allow overseas financial firms greater access to the world’s second-largest economy. Then came the trade war with the U.S., raising concerns that President Xi Jinping could … ( read original…
China developers face $55bn of maturing onshore debt in 2019
China’s property market is a bedrock for growth and economists fear that signs of distress in developer debt would send ripples through the financial system just as other problems are mounting. China’ … ( read…
Shoppers shatter sales record again in China’s version of Cyber Monday
WATCH: China reveals world’s first virtual news presenters Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who will step down as chairman in less than a year, attended the start of the gala in Shanghai and appeared … (…
The Trade War With China And The Problem With Intellectual Property Rights
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Manufacturing I am an editor at the technology and information company Brightwire. When they were trying to catch up with the frontier economie… ( read original story…
China’s exports and imports both grow more than expected in October
In fact, domestic factors due to the fallout from over-exuberant property market are the key reasons why China’s growth would slow, Xie said. The trade dispute with the U.S. is thus a handy and timely…
