Chinese Economy

BEIJING (Reuters) - New bank loans in China rose to a three-month high in June as policymakers sought to keep ample funds in the financial system to support the slowing economy amid rising U.S. trade pressure. Most analysts have forecast the Chinese economy…

China is exporting deflation to the rest of the world.  That is a favorite quote of one of my favorite economists, Andrew Hunt.  The tariff tension between the Trump and Xi administrations has greatly pressured the Chinese manufacturing sect…

China, it seems, can pull off its own offset strategy. A recent CNAS report by former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work and Greg Grant recharacterizes the Third Offset (of which Work is generally recognized as a primary architect) as a strategy for disr…

Trade tensions with the US gripped the Chinese economy during 2018, and as growth sputtered worldwide, Chinas wealthy lost nearly $530 billion, likely because of a dip in the countrys stock market. After seven years of increases in the number of high-net-wor…

Total Return S&P 500 vs. VFWIX (Global ex-U.S. ETF) Source: Yahoo Finance It has been a disheartening decade for investors focused on equities outside the U.S. VFWIX, an exchanged traded fund (ETF) that tracks the FTSE All Word ex U.S. Index, finished 2…

In short, China no longer needs Hong Kong the way it once did. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and with political upheaval facing the United States and other major democracies, China has come to envision an entirely different purpose for Hong…

I’ve noticed a tendency for some commentators to believe the Chinese economy is about to topple. One such instance is Gordon Chang: Take the year 2016 as an example. The NBS reported that Chinas gross domestic product grew 6.7 percent that year. In 2017, how…

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque On Monday, Wall Street cheered a favorable outcome in President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping's Saturday meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. The S&P 500 sailed to an intraday all-time high, …

Apple shareholders were among the technology investors rewarded Monday when stocks surged in the wake of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping's weekend G20 meeting. Shares jumped 3%, to the highest level in nearly two months, as the tech…

After years of buildup, 5G is finally here albeit more as a trickle than a deluge. These things take time, of course. Carriers are adding coverage, city by city, promising dozens by years end. And as for hardware, early adopters have somewhere between one and…