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Frank Holmes: My debate with Gordon Chang on China‘s future at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference was a stimulating, intellectual exercise. A healthy market needs a compromise between the bid and ask, and discussions between people who strongly disagree is a great way to promote critical Read more…
Michael Snyder: Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a “blowout” would be a huge understatement? Well, that is what China (NYSEArca:FXI) is doing to the United States. China is absolutely destroying Read more…
Jim Trippon: US China watchers are eager to gauge the presumed next leader of China, Vice-President Xi Jinping, when he visits the White House next month. The visit, announced by the Read more…
Jim Trippon: The latest economic data from China (NYSEArca:FXI), which included factory output, retail sales, fixed asset investment and the all-important GDP numbers, initially failed to move Read more…
Jim Trippon: Incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected in a close campaign in Taiwan. Ma, of the Kuomintang Party, or KMT, defeated chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Party Progressive Party, or DPP. Ma received 51.6 percent of the votes to Tsai’s 45.6 percent. Read more…
Jim Trippon: China’s (NYSEARCA:FXI) recently released data showed that December consumer inflation had retreated to a 4.1 percent annual growth rate. China’s slowing economy as well as Read more…
Jim Trippon: China’s stock exchanges have come off a punishing year, and have barely had time to lick their wounds as 2012 has begun. The major indexes of the four Chinese markets, the Shanghai Composite, Hong Kong Hang Seng Exchange, the Shenzhen Exchange and the Tapei Exchange, all tell Read more…
Richard Rittorno: Analysis seem to be split on weather China’s economy is coming in for a hard landing or not, but colleagues who have been to China recently indicate see both less construction cranes and more consumption of non-necessity items such as smart phones, electronics, education and a Read more…
Jim Trippon: With many in the financial media in the west raising their voice about China (NYSEARCA:FXI) as an economy in imminent danger of plunging off a cliff, it’s obvious that the Chinese government doesn’t share that view. The Chinese policymakers have been attempting to address and Read more…
JT Long: China (NYSEARCA:FXI) has become the $5.88 trillion question in the world financial equation for 2012. In an attempt to gauge the direction of this economic elephant, Cambridge House Read more…
Stocks were under consistent selling pressure on Wednesday on higher volume. By the end of the session, all five major indices were well in the red, and near the day’s lows. Smaller cap issues felt the brunt of the selling pressure. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) and the S&P MidCap 400 Read more…
Dian L. Chu: Goldman’s Jim O’Neill noted in a recent interview that the world’s future prosperity depends on China’s (NYSEARCA:FXI) growth. While we don’t totally agree with that assessment as we Read more…
Benjamin Shepherd: European progress toward a resolution to their debt crisis will also help China (NYSEARCA:FXI) in its efforts to engineer a “soft landing” for the Middle Kingdom’s export-driven economy. Read more…
Kerri Shannon: All eyes are on North Korea and its repressed economic system this week after the country announced early Monday that Kim Jong Il, the ruling dictator for 17 years, died Saturday. The political instability to follow Kim Jong Il’s death could ripple through the global economy, weighing on Read more…
Jim Trippon: At the close of last week, in the wake of news of a slowing economy and ongoing global worries over the European debt crisis, China’s stock markets once again fell. The week ended on a down note for China’s major indices, with the Shanghai Composite dropping to 2,315.27, down 14.56, or Read more…
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