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12.05.17Are Alibaba and Tencent Fueling a Tech Bubble? Investors Weigh the Worrisome Question
Fortune
Alibaba has spent roughly $1.72 billion buying at least 50 startups and small businesses since 2013, while Tencent has doled out at least $780 million over the same period, according to Nikkei Asian Review.
Conversation
08.03.17
As China Reins in Capital, What Next for Global Trade?
China’s Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, are tightening controls on overseas spending by the country’s biggest companies and their highly visible billionaire CEOs. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Xi personally signed off on...
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06.30.17Hong Kong to Be Staging Point for Plan to Draw 100 Billion Yuan of Capital into China’s Bond Market
South China Morning Post
China’s government will allow foreign investors to trade in the country’s $9.3 trillion bond market, a vital step in helping to internationalise the yuan and help deepen the capital market.
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06.02.17Billionaire Anbang Boss Prevented from Leaving China
Financial Times
Acquisitive insurer sees plans stymied by financial controls and political infighting.
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03.30.17Chinese Capital Constraints Send Shock through Global M&A
Financial Times
Outbound deals hit lowest level since 2014 after cash clampdown
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03.20.17Viacom’s Paramount Rejected in Potential $1 Billion Film Deal with China
MarketWatch
Viacom’s Paramount Pictures movie unit has failed to strike a deal with two Chinese groups to receive $1 billion in financing for a fresh series of films, according to several Hollywood sources who spoke to The Post.
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02.27.17Corporate China Hits Global Debt Market Milestone
Financial Times
Banks and other corporate borrowers quietly encouraged to raise money offshore
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01.10.17China Probes Bitcoin Exchanges amid Capital Flight Fears
Financial Times
Investors in the cryptocurrency say they doubt it is being used to transfer large amounts of cash out of China.
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11.30.16China Adds Curbs on Pulling Money Out of the Country
Bloomberg
New restrictions added as authorities seek to prevent a flood of capital outflows from destabilizing the financial system
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10.26.16China’s Latest Debt Crackdown Just Delays More Serious Action
Wall Street Journal
China’s dilemma: how to manage a huge debt mound while maintaining loose monetary policy
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06.28.16China’s Li Won’t Allow ‘Rollercoaster’ Markets After Brexit
Reuters
China vows to contain any drastic changes in the capital market after the global panic....
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08.25.14China’s Movie Industry: All That Glitters Isn’t Gold
Forbes
If we just looked at their success, on the surface, the Chinese film industry appears to be flourishing; but there is some cause for concern.
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08.25.12Revamping the Landscape of Forex Flow
Capital flows out of China may be accelerating, a phenomenon commonly associated with waning confidence in a nation’s economy. But the foreign exchange regulator says the change is a step in the right direction.In the first six months of the year,...
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04.01.08
A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The authors present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor...
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01.26.06
Ending Financial Repression in China
Cato Institute
The consequences of China’s financial repression are easy
to see. By suppressing two key macroeconomic prices—the
interest rate and the exchange rate—and by failing to privatize
financial markets and allow capital freedom, China’s
leaders have...