China’s sluggish factories spurring hotter stimulus calls
That loud sputtering sound emanating from China is increasing in volume as factory activity contracts for a fourth straight month.
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Alibaba’s listing upgrade the lift Hong Kong needs
Alibaba Group Holding will complete on Wednesday (August 28) its long-delayed conversion to a primary listing from secondary status on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The move could be as big a deal for the city as the e-commerce juggernaut itself.
China needs to pick a side, and it just might pick the West
For the Kremlin, its “partner of no limits”, China, isn’t doing enough to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine. So, Russia has signed a peace treaty with North Korea, hoping to pressure China into backing Moscow’s war effort further.
Forget the Fed and BOJ; PBOC holds the monetary cards
TOKYO – With all the focus on the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan, it’s easy to forget where the most important monetary calls are being made this year: Beijing.
Xi stays the course amid rising calls for change
Chinese President Xi Jinping has laid out his vision for China’s economic and social future – and it places Xi Jinping at the very center.
China’s Third Plenum all about muddling through
Four days of highly anticipated high-level Third Plenum meetings (from July 15 to 18) among Chinese Communist Party leaders ended with a perplexingly vague readout.
China cuts key rate amid worst deflation since ’99
Pan Gongsheng isn’t famed for acrobatic skills. But on Monday (July 22), the People’s Bank of China governor embarked on a routine that will test his monetary balance, agility and motor coordination in tantalizing ways.