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Jim Trippon: China’s second quarter GDP growth slowed to a year over year rate of 7.6 percent, which was less than some observers had expected, and less than the first quarter’s 8.1 percent growth. The surprise, such as it even was, was confined to outsiders, however Read more…
Jim Trippon: On the last trading day in June, the Shanghai Composite Index rose smartly with a 29.59 point surge to hit 2,25.43. The 1.35 percent increase on the day for the trading average was a bit of good news in a market that has been desultory for much Read more…
Jim Trippon: With the June preliminary manufacturing PMI numbers in from the HSBC Flash survey, it looks as though China will be ramping up its easing measures more. The HSBC Flash Purchasing Managers Index dropped to 48.1 for June, after May’s PMI hit 48.4. Read more…
Jim Trippon: China’s central bank, The People’s Bank of China, cut the one-year borrowing interest rate 25 basis points, from 6.56 percent to 6.31 percent, on Thursday, June 7th. Along with this cut, the central bank cut the one year deposit rate also by 25 basis points, to 3.25 percent. Read more…
Jim Trippon: News last Thursday that China’s economy slowed for the seventh consecutive month came from the HSBC Markit Purchasing Managers Index Report. The flash reading for May was 48.7 compared to the 49.3 final reading from April. Read more…
Jim Trippon: Investors in China are of course paying close attention and are strongly interested in both the near term and long term direction of China’s economy. Most of the news from the western financial media has painted a negative picture of China recently Read more…
Jim Trippon: With the April economic numbers for China (NYSEARCA:FXI) just released, they revived the arguments for the China bears (NYSEARCA:FXP) who believe the economy is in a severe slowdown, still headed for a hard landing. But is this really the case? Read more…
Jim Trippon: China continues to undergo vast changes. One of the areas that is shifting is in its food consumption and production. As the nation continues to enjoy greater affluence, consumers gravitate toward more protein-rich foods, especially pork and chicken. China’s pork production accounts for more than half Read more…
Jim Trippon: There is often talk both within and outside of China about reform. The recent World Bank report, which was commissioned with the cooperation of China, contained blunt words about the necessity for structural economic and societal reforms. Undercurrents from within China have Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: According to Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday, China is only going to grow at 7.5% this year. But this isn’t the bombshell most Western analysts think it is-even though the markets sold off on the day and may continue their temper tantrum later this week. 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: 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…
Jack Crooks: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” — Lao Tzu Read more…
Tony Sagami: Before it was just the Obama administration, but now, just about everyone who is running in the 2012 Presidential race is jumping on the anti-China (NYSE:FXP) bandwagon. Read more…
David Zeiler: U.S. companies (NYSE:SPY) have become increasingly worried that unfair Chinese business practices are hurting their ability to compete and will start eating into the juicy profits they’ve been extracting from the Asian giant. Read more…
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