If the rally falters next year along with the housing market, financial problems are likely to re-emerge. Profits among industrial companies in the first 10 months of 2016 were up 8.6% from… ( read original…
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Investment bank China Renaissance launches new domestic JV, eyes U.S. growth
HONG KONG China Renaissance launched a domestic securities joint venture on Tuesday to tap the growing advisory and stock broking businesses, but the boutique investment bank is also targeting a big U.S. expansion to capture…
Facebook Must Stay Out of China
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has long been courting China’s leaders, studying Mandarin … conditions would make any deal not worth the cost, either ethical or financial. Though the U.S. press often writes as…
China central bank rejects media report that some mortgage lending suspended
BEIJING (Reuters) – The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) on Tuesday rejected a media report which said the central bank had told some banks in cities with overheated property markets to stop issuing new home…
China’s big march into infrastructure finance
The big theme of the coming decades in finance is infrastructure. That was the message delivered by US President-elect Donald Trump in his acceptance speech on November 9 and that theme resonates across Asia. This…
CSC Financial’s Hong Kong IPO Seeks as Much as $1.06 Billion
Cornerstone investors will buy about $597 million of stock Citic, China Structural Reform Fund to purchase shares in IPO CSC Financial Co., the Beijing-based brokerage and investment bank, and an existing shareholder are seeking as…
Straszheim: Trump to 'Shuffle His Feet' on China
Nov.29 — Donald Straszheim, head of China research at Evercore, discusses U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s approach to China and his expectation that China will retaliate and hurt American businesses if tariffs are put in place…
China puts brakes on overseas spending spree
China has spent hundreds of billions of dollars from its vast foreign exchange reserves, the world’s largest, in its efforts to keep the yuan from falling too rapidly. Chinese investment in non-financial firms surged 53…
Trump Confronting China on Trade Risks Corporate Backlash (1)
Because he’s from outside the establishment he also may be more resistant to lobbying than previous administrations, says Victor Shih, a professor at the University of California at San Diego who studies China’s politics and…
FinTech in China: A 53-Point Summary
China is the world’s largest FinTech market. In 2015, its market size of Internet finance was greater than $1.8 trillion. 2. China is a global leader in every aspect. The country has taken in some…
China restricts Korean K-beauty influence
Both entertainment and cosmetics brands have already seen a drop in shares, as the sectors are heavily prominent in China. On 22nd November 2016, The Financial Times announced that even though South Korea’s Kospi index…
China's first foreign insurance joint venture reaches 20 years
TORONTO, Nov. 28, 2016 /CNW/ – On November 26, 1996, Manulife Financial Corporation and Sinochem officially opened Manulife-Sinochem, the first foreign insurance joint venture in China. Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Chinese Premier Li Peng…
China risks wasting $490 billion on unneeded coal plants — study
The report, published by London-based the Carbon Tracker Initiative, argues that not only China doesn’t need new coal plants, but also that existing capacity may come under financial pressure by 2020 from power market reforms…
