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Shanghai Composite in Free Fall as Chinese Economy Worsens

Sat Jan 15, 2016

The Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 3.55% on Friday, to close at 2,900.97, after the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said Chinese commercial banks issued 597.8 billion ...

Shanghai Composite Climbing Wall of Worry as Index Heads for a Breakout

Tue Dec 29, 2015

The Shanghai Composite Index rebounded 0.85%, to close at 3,563.74 on Tuesday, after tumbling 2.18% the previous trading day over concerns about Chinese industrial profits ...

Goldman Sachs Chief Would Not Invest in China Right Now, Did he Make the Right Call?

Mon Sep 21, 2015

Goldman Sachs CEO and Chairman Lloyd Blankfein told The Wall Street Journal Editor Gerard Baker last week that China's broad stock market intervention was "ham-handed" and ...

The PBoC Decides to Cut Rates and the Reserve Requirement Ratio at the Last Minute, a Move That Could be as Risky as the China Stock ...

Tue Aug 25, 2015

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) decided on Wednesday to cut the one-year benchmark bank lending rate by 25 ...

China’s Neophyte Investors Have to Learn about a New Phase in their Stock Market: the House of Pain

Tue Jul 28, 2015

The Shanghai composite index pulled back another 1.68% on Tuesday to close at 3,663.00, after Monday’s major meltdown of 8.48%. There were reports that brokerages, who ...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Said Sell Chinese Stocks into the Rally

Wed Jul 3, 2015

China finally woke up after almost $3 trillion in market cap got wiped out from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. The Chinese markets are crashing on a daily basis, as ...

USD/JPY Could Turn Bearish if More Signs of a Weak U.S. Economy Emerge

Fri Feb 20, 2015

The dollar-yen exchange rate didn’t react much after the two-day Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy meeting turned out to be a non-event. BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on ...

Imports Fall Off the Cliff and a Record Surplus Doesn't Look Good for China

Sun Feb 8, 2015

China’s Customs Bureau said its January exports fell 3.3% year-on-year, missing expectations of a 6.3% gain. Imports tumbled 19.9%, far worse than the expectations of a 3.3% ...

The 3.62 Basis Point Spread Between Mainland and Offshore Yuan Said It All About the Just Announced China PMI

Sun Feb 1, 2015

The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) came in on Sunday at 49.8, missing the forecast of 50.2. The official ...

Hang Seng Indexes and the Hong Kong Dollar’s Peg to U.S. Dollar

Wed Jan 21, 2015

Right after the Swiss National Bank (SNB) decided to discontinue its three-year minimum exchange rate of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro, unsubstantiated speculations began ...

IMF Trims China’s GDP Growth Forecast to 6.8% in 2015 and Here are the Problems

Tue Jan 20, 2015

On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered its forecast for global economic growth in 2015 to 3.5% from 3.8%. The IMF also trimmed China’s GDP growth to 6.8% ...

China's Inflation Keeps Falling

Tue Dec 9, 2014

China’s November Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) just came out. The CPI printed at 1.4% year-on-year, below the expectations of 1.6%, a 5-year low. The PPI, which is already reading negative, came in at ...

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