China

When we last detailed our outlook for the Australian dollar (AUD), in mid-September, we re-identified the fundamentals of our domestic currency’s worth using a...

Value investors, including Charlie Munger, have been snapping up cheap shares in China in recent months. So is now the time to be greedy as fear levels rise? Angus...

Recent regulatory crackdowns in the Chinese market have triggered selloffs across many of their largest tech names. BAT stocks (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) alongside the...

While the Evergrande episode continued, Fantasia, a Chinese property developer, missed its $205 million bond repayment on 4 October. The latter is making the headline...

When macro maestro Ray Dalio speaks, investors listen. (True, they don't always agree. But they listen.) Especially when the world can't seem to decide what sort of...

Emerging markets have been in the news with concern about the contagion impact of the potential failure of Chinese property developer Evergrande. This crisis...

Reports on the financial strains at the property developer China Evergrande Group have been unnerving global markets, drawing comparisons to a level of systemic risk...

The financial market topic of the day seems to be China Evergrande Group (aka Evergrande), and the news on 15 September 2021 that China’s Ministry of Housing and...

So far, the equity market has only fallen a few percentage points. A lot of ink spilled for a relatively modest market reaction. (Examples: here, here and here to list...

The Evergrande saga is intensifying daily. The firm’s equity is all but gone. Its debt barely trades. Its sales and assets are crashing in value. Its brand damage is...

Innovate. Disrupt. Iterate. Deliver. These four words have a very modern ring but there's nothing especially modern about them. They apply equally to the creation of...

Here we are once more in the teeth of the great "super-cycle" debate as iron ore probes daily new lows in the reach for a China-Crisis clearing price. This is my first...

The heightened US-China relationship tensions since the Trump administration have forced China to re-finesse its domestic economy priorities. This backdrop makes the...

For the majority of 2021, Chinese equities have underperformed the US and Europe as economic and regulatory fears cast a shadow over companies operating in the world’s...

The potential for a slowdown in the world’s two largest economies is feeding concerns that global growth may have peaked Both countries are also facing another wave...

The Chinese market presents an enigma for businesses: On one hand, the sheer size of the population is an enticing prospect as it gradually grows wealthier. On the...

Increasing regulatory scrutiny is feeding uncertainty in the Chinese equity markets and has once again raised the question of whether the local Chinese equity market...

Last year brought fiscal stimulus to the world's economy at a scale never seen before. In Australia alone, the government spent $257 billion in direct economic...

The A2 Milk share price has seen one-way traffic since its full-year result in August last year, down 75% before basing out in May. Whenever we see a great brand...

Producers in both China and the US are facing higher costs, prompting growing concerns that inflation could threaten the global economy – but China isn’t waiting to...