Friday, May 3, 2024

Monthly Archives: September, 2017

China’s Top 500 Companies See Asset-Profit Ratios Drop to 10 Year Low

The asset-profit ratios of China's top 500 companies have fallen to a decade-long low as asset expansion outpaces growth in revenues. The latest "2017 China...

Is Surging Household Leverage Behind China’s Property Bubble?

One of China's leading economic analysts points to surging levels of household leverage to over 90% of income as a key driver of property...

Housing Prices Continues to Languish in China’s First-tier Cities

Housing prices as well as transaction volumes continued to falter in first-tier cities across China in August. A new report from Anjuke Real Estate Research...

People’s Bank of China Cancels 20% Forex Risk Reserve Ratio for Forward Settlement

The central bank has announced that starting from 11 September a 20% reserve requirement will no longer be imposed upon the domestic deposits of...

Seven-Year China Bear Turns Bull After $240 Million Loss on RMB Shorts

A US hedge fund manager has abandoned his bearish outlook on the Chinese economy after losing over USD$240 million betting on a currency collapse. Mark...

Chinese Foreign Trade for January-August Rises 17.1% Year-on-Year

The latest official data points to a sizeable rise in Chinese foreign trade for the first eight months of 2017. Data from China's General Administration...

Beijing Wants Foreign Capital to Invest in State-owned Enterprise Reform

Beijing will further encourage the participation of foreign capital in structural and mixed-ownership reforms of China's vast state-owned enterprise sector according to the latest...

China’s Foreign Reserves Rise for Seventh Consecutive Month in August

The latest data from the central bank shows that China's foreign reserves continued to increase last month, with analysts pointing to capital inflows and...

China’s Fifth Biggest Bank Deemed Junk by Moody’s

Moody's Investors Services has downgraded China's fifth biggest lender in terms of assets to junk status, due to the rise wholesale funding costs amidst...

Sovereign Wealth Fund Says Chinese Outbound Foreign Investment Still Irrational

The vice-head of China's sovereign wealth fund says that outbound foreign investment by Chinese companies is oftentimes "irrational" in nature, leading to a comparatively...

Most Read