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China’s Bills Are Coming Due
With over $500 billion of debt from overleveraged Chinese local governments and companies coming due to lenders outside the formal banking sector later this year, China is bracing for a wave of credit...
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The Fall And Rise Of China [CHART]
China is on its way to becoming the world's largest economic superpower. Most economists expect China's economy to surpass the size of the U.S. economy sometime in the next few decades.To those who...
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This Is The Best Chart We've Seen On The Chinese Debt Problem
Talking about a country's total "debt" is always risky.For example, if you're talking about government debt, then it's important to understand the nature of the debt. Is it in the government's own...
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Objects Bearing Colors Of Missing Plane Seen In New Search Zone
A Chinese military plane searching for signs of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 spotted several objects floating in the sea on Saturday, including two bearing colours of the missing jet.But it...
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Chinese Hospitals Have Seen A Wave Of Stabbings And Violent Confrontations
A spate of hospital stabbings and violent confrontations in hospitals across China’s mainland has shed a light onto the straining medical profession.A recent event where a doctor leapt to his death in...
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Chinese Travel Sites Are Banning Ticket Purchases From Malaysia Airlines
The backlash in China over missing commercial plane Flight 370 has led to a travel boycott to Malaysia.Spurred mostly by online conversation, the boycott has since snowballed to involve several local...
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Gigantic Protests Break Out In Taiwan To Protest Trade Deal With China
TAIPEI (Reuters) - More than 100,000 protesters took to the streets of Taiwan's capital on Sunday as a two-week-long campaign against a trade pact with China gathered steam, piling further pressure on...
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China Seizes An Insane $14.5 Billion Worth Of Assets From Family Of Former...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) from family members and associates of retired domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is at...
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Over 100,000 People In Taiwan Protest A Controversial China Trade Deal
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the streets around Taiwan's Parliament on Sunday to voice their opposition to a trade pact with China, part of a nearly 2-week-old protest that is...
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5 Ways China Successfully Spies On Corporate America
Luke Bencie is the Managing Director of Security Management International, a global security consulting firm.The ongoing tiff between the U.S. and China over economic espionage activities took an...
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Chinese PMI Rises To 50.3 (FXI, EWH)
China's official manufacturing PMI climbed to 50.3 in March.This beat expectations for a modest decline to 50.1, and is up from a reading of 50.2 in February.A reading below 50 indicates...
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Here Comes HSBC China PMI...
HSBC China manufacturing PMI for March is out at 9:45 p.m. ET.Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for PMI to hold steady at 48.1. A reading below 50 indicates contraction.The current reading...
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The Current Hangover In China's Stock Market Is Worse Than 1929
The chart above, taken from the latest presentation by Alexander Ineichen at Ineichen Research & Management, shows the path of various stock markets following historic bubbles and crashes.Believe...
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Residents Of A Polluted Chinese City Clamored For Fresh Mountain Air That Was...
A Chinese travel company brought bags of air from China's Laojun Mountain to Zhengzhou in China’s Henan province, reports Te-Ping Chen at The Wall Street Journal.Zenghzou, like many major Chinese...
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Russia Controls 40% Of This Critical Industrial Metal
Below is an interview with Frank Holmes, chief investment officer at U.S. Global Investors. This Q&A went out to subscribers of our "10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell" newsletter...
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China May Be Preparing Harsh New Regulations On Bitcoin
This should cause more stomachaches about Bitcoin bulls who think China is going to be big: The FT is now reporting that the People's Bank of China might be preparing harsh Bitcoin regulations.Several...
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Chinese Actor Shatters Social Media Records After Apologizing For Cheating On...
Chinese actor Wen Zhang is as famous for his movies as he is his family-man image.Zhang, 29, has been married to Chinese actress Yili Ma, 37, since 2008. The couple have a daughter together and Ma is...
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China's Services Sector Is Picking Up
BEIJING (Reuters) - Activity in China's services industry rose to a four-month high in March, a private survey showed on Thursday, even as persistent weakness in manufacturing has reinforced fears of a...
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China Unveils 'Mini Stimulus' To Boost Its Slowing Economy
China has announced a set of steps to boost slowing growth in the world's number-two economy, including extending tax breaks for small businesses and support measures for poor urban districts.The State...
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The End Of The Feature Phone Is In Sight
We've entered the late stages of smartphone adoption across the globe.Smartphones are already in wide use across most developed markets. In early adopter regions like the U.S., U.K., Australia, much of...
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