The Chinese Are Going To Be Furious When They Find Out About Japan's Deal To...
The Japanese government has reached an agreement with the family that owns three of the five islands in the disputed Senkaku chain to purchase the territory for the nation. Media reports in Japan said...
View ArticleChinese State News Agency Says The Decline Of Iron Ore 'Seems Irreversible'
Chinese iron ore inventory continued to grow at 25 major ports in the week ending September 3, according to the latest iron ore price report from Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Inventories of...
View ArticleBank Of Canada Warns On China's Slowdown
From the latest Bank of Canada monetary policy statement: Global growth prospects are unfolding largely as the Bank projected in its July Monetary Policy Report (MPR), with a widespread slowing of...
View ArticleChina's Economy Faces 9 Major Challenges (FXI, PEK)
As Chinese data continues to deteriorate, housing continues to show weakness and bad debts rise, some take solace in the fact that this is all part of China's plan to rebalance its economy and cool...
View ArticleNo One Really Knows What's Going To Happen To China's Leadership This Year
Some time later this year, perhaps within weeks, China's leadership will undergo a transition. We know a little about the transition, which will take place at the 18th Party Congress and should see a...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Mobile Commerce Accounts For 15% Of All Online Sales
Mobile Insights is the new daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile strategy news. It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence...
View ArticlePeople In China Thinks This Lavish New Skyscraper Resembles Some Sort Of...
The 74-story Gate to the East was designed to bring some architectural triumph to the Chinese city of Suzhou, 45 miles east of Shanghai. RNJM, the British architecture firm behind the building, called...
View ArticleLook How Much More Expensive Luxury Items Got In China This Year
Chinese luxury consumers have faced rising prices once again this year, especially in the areas of travel, liquor, and education, according to the latest Luxury Consumer Price Index from the HuRun...
View ArticleThe New Richest Man In China Owns A Company Called 'Wahaha'
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Zong Qinghou, head of China’s third- largest beverage maker, is the country’s richest man after disclosing his stake in closely held Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co. is more than...
View ArticleAngela Merkel's Trip To China Was Far More Successful Than Hillary Clinton's
Bring home the bacon, or the speck, as it were, was the guiding principle for German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she frolicked in China last week. But her pleas to get the Chinese to buy the crappy...
View ArticleHere's What That Led To Explosive Growth For Chinese And Indian Entrepreneurs
Every company in the world wants a piece of the rapidly growing Indian and Chinese economies. The Boston Consulting Group estimates that the consumer market in both countries will triple by 2020,...
View ArticleHere's Why Goldman Just Slashed Its Chinese Growth Forecasts
Goldman Sachs' Li Cui and her team have lowered their Chinese GDP growth forecast to 7.6 percent in 2012, from 8.0 percent. They also cut their 2013 forecast to 7.9 percent, from 8.5 percent. In her...
View ArticleChina's State Owned Enterprises Are Adding To The Collapse In Iron Ore
As Chinese iron ore inventory builds up, much attention has been devoted to the slowdown in the domestic economy. What's under-reported is the fact that Chinese state-owned enterprises that dominate...
View ArticleThe United States Has A New Rival For Influence In Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt — The United States is suddenly competing for influence over its most stalwart ally in the Middle East. Newly elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, charting a fresh course for the...
View ArticleChina's Richest Man Could Teach Us A Thing Or Two About Being Frugal
Zong Qinghou may be China's richest man and rank No. 23 globally, but he could easily earn the distinction for being most frugal. According to Bloomberg News, Zong, the 66-year-old founder of Wahaha...
View ArticleAn Enormous Chinese Price War Backfired For Everybody Involved
Some of China's largest retailers are facing an official investigation for deceptive sales practices after a recent price war spiraled out of control. At the Wall Street Journal, Laurie Burkitt...
View ArticleChinese Market Goes Wild After 1 Trillion Yuan Stimulus Plan
China has announced a trillion yuan (£99bn) of infrastructure projects in a bid to revive economic growth, raising hopes that the world's second largest economy will drive a recovery across the globe....
View ArticleNOMURA: In The Last Two Days, China's Stimulus Policy Has Changed
With everyone so focused on Europe, lots of folks have missed the huge infrastructure announcement spree in China. Here's Nomura Zhiwei Zhang on the latest series of project approvals... The Chinese...
View ArticleWhy Expat Businessmen Are Leaving China
Last month, Mark Kitto, a British businessman who built (and subsequently lost) an empire of English-language magazines in China, wrote a 4,000 word article for the UK's Prospect magazine explaining...
View ArticleWhy The Latest Chinese Stimulus Could Actually Be A Game-Changer
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced that it approved 25 rail transit projects in 19 cities, on September 5. The following day it approved 20 investment projects 13 of which...
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