China's commodity companies are drowning in a sea of debt
China's economy is a subject of frenetic debate among economists right now — the country's growth is slowing and the stock market's summer collapse caught headlines.Analysts are divided over just how...
View ArticleKFC is telling a distressing story about the Chinese economy
KFC and Pizza Hut may not be standard economic indicators, but they're flashing a warning sign about the state of the Chinese economy right now.Yum Brands, the US food giant that has made an enormous...
View ArticleCHART: Here's why the Chinese slowdown has global central bankers so worried
Germany has released data showing that it had its worst month of exports since the financial crisis.BI UK’s Mike Bird wrote of the data that the poor performance was for August which meant that the...
View ArticleThis is why the Chinese government says you shouldn't worry about its bad...
While China may be making steps to make its economic data more transparent, doubts about its reliability persist. The ability to push out data at a rapid pace, and it always seeming to print around...
View ArticleWe just got more proof China's economic transformation is working
China's seven-day National Day Golden Week has concluded, with retail sales and tourism data suggesting that Chinese household consumption remains resilient.According to Xiaojia Zhi and Sylvia Sheng,...
View ArticleHSBC: The 'toxic mix' of low growth and high debt has spread to the...
Low economic growth and high debt levels are a brutal combination that the rich world has been all too familiar with in the years since the financial crisis.It's referred to as a "toxic mix" by the...
View ArticleNestlé just became the 4th Western company this month to flash a warning sign...
Nestlé just became the fourth major Western brand in the past two weeks to report dreary Chinese sales during the year so far.According to the Swiss food and drink colossus, sales in the Asia, Oceania,...
View ArticleWhy economists don't trust China's GDP figures
Earlier Monday China released its quarterly gross-domestic-product accounts, which revealed that the economy grew 6.9% in the 12 months to September. The figure, as it had done in three of the past...
View Article$50 TRILLION IN DEBT: This is what the '3rd wave' of the 2008 financial...
In 2015, a picture of a Chinese fruit vendor trading stocks with a laptop at his stall went viral on social media. The number of Chinese with margin trading accounts — in which investors are extended...
View ArticleA major economist just explained why the UK's red carpet for Xi Jinping is so...
Britain is currently rolling out the carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a public display of such desperate and obvious neediness that it's managed to upset both human rights campaigners and...
View ArticleA major investment bank just explained in brutal terms why China's economic...
Barclays analyst Aroop Chatterjee just released a brutal series of slides about the Chinese economy, titled "Unsustainable Stability." It makes for a pretty grim read.The Chinese economy has been...
View ArticleChina's massive industrial firms just got their first piece of good news in...
In a welcome development, at least compared to recent dire readings, Chinese industrial profits for large firms slipped fractionally in the 12 months to September, declining 0.1% according to data...
View ArticleChinese consumer sentiment just plunged to its lowest level on record
Chinese consumer sentiment tanked in October, dropping to the lowest level on record.According to the latest Westpac-MNI consumer sentiment index, confidence slid by 7.2% to 109.7 during the month,...
View ArticleThese maps show how the Chinese economy conquered the world in a decade
The pace of China's growth as a major global trading economy over the past 30 years is almost unprecedented in economic history.Countries have grown at a similarly rapid pace before, but they've never...
View ArticleThere are some silver linings in China's industrial slowdown
China’s new Five-Year Plan reinforces the government’s pro-growth and reformist credentials. While this may not be enough in itself to reassure worried investors, we see some fundamental trends which...
View ArticleChina's economic crisis has flipped its relationship with Africa upside down
One of the biggest economic stories over the past decade has been China's increasing involvement in Africa.Both the government in Beijing and businesses from around the country have looked for...
View ArticleWhy Chinese executives keep disappearing
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a massive anti-corruption campaign last year, several Chinese power players, from hedge fund managers to CEOs, have just disappeared.Produced by Jenner...
View ArticleCHINA'S $28 TRILLION PROBLEM: 'The dark side of Asia's debt'
This photo is of Wu Lin’an (on the left) giving stock investment advice to members of the public in a “street stock salon” in central Shanghai, China, earlier this year. Reuters described Wu's...
View ArticleYes, you really do need to start worrying about that $28 trillion debt that's...
This photo is of Wu Lin’an (on the left) giving stock investment advice to members of the public in a “street stock salon” in central Shanghai, China, earlier this year. Reuters described Wu's...
View ArticleChinese economic data has a growing credibility problem
Casting doubt over the accuracy of China’s GDP figures has become a favourite pastime for many in financial markets.Like clockwork, the government’s figures tend to match or slightly exceed...
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