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Why everyone blames China for slumping commodity prices

The Chinese economy is in a serious slowdown. On Friday, we learned that small and medium-size manufacturing firms in China are struggling.That's bad news not just for its trading partners and global...

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GOLDMAN: 5 reasons Chinese stocks are getting smoked

Chinese stocks are approaching a bear market.On Monday, the Shanghai Composite plunged 8.5% in its worst single-day percentage decline in eight years. And on Tuesday, the index opened 4% lower, though...

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Don't be afraid of ETFs based on illiquid stuff

It seems ironic that Wall Street today loves the words “innovation” and “disruptor”, but fears innovation and disruptive technologies within their own industry.The flow statistics certainly show that...

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China's investors are still in financial kindergarten

"Perhaps the last lesson I took away from my Shanghai experience: Maturity takes time. Just as kids grow from naïve adolescence to rowdy teenage years to eventual maturity, so will China and its market...

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Shipping costs are another bad sign for the Chinese economy

One of the indicators that show that things are not all that rosy in China, or in the global economy, is the price carriers charge to ship containers from China to its big trading partners around the...

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China might actually be underestimating its growth

There has been a great deal of speculation over the years as to whether official economic data from China is reliable.In particular, China’s GDP figures have come under increasing scrutiny. Are the...

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China's government is absolutely lying about its economy

I and a few brave experts such as Jim Chanos, Gordon Chang, and David Stockman (speaking at our upcoming IES conference) have been arguing for years that China has the greatest investment and...

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US stocks have almost certainly priced in the 'collateral damage' from China

As I wrote yesterday, the only thing that has been added to the economic news this summer, that we didn't already have last fall, is the Chinese stock market crash.  And wherever that crash is going to...

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China actually looks pretty good compared to its neighbors in Asia

A lot of fingers pointed to China during the recent stock market downturn, blaming the country's slowing growth and imploding stock market for the sharp US stock selloff.According to Goldman Sachs,...

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Don't confuse Chinese stocks with the real Chinese economy

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.”– Sun TzuA couple of weeks ago I was complaining about 47,000 China reports clogging my e-mail. The number now feels like it is...

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'Whispers' are distorting investors' outlook on China

Renewed anxiety about China’s economic performance appears to be at odds with the fact that the country’s growth has been declining for years.How much of the recent nervousness is based on a balanced...

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Barclays analysts visited China and came back saying it was one of the most...

As China's economy boomed, US industrial companies made serious investments in helping to build infrastructure, helping to drive growth in the country and their bottom lines.This relationship, however,...

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These 5 forces are holding stocks back right now

After hitting record highs just a few months ago, stocks dropped off seriously in August and September. Despite fighting higher recently, they have yet to make back the losses.According to a note from...

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There's a big positive development in GM's largest market

Ah, China, one of the major reasons for investor optimism in the cyclical automotive industry.Just as investors of major automakers such as General Motors were hopeful that China would strap the global...

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Chinese shipping imports just nosedived to their worst levels ever

Growth of exports from China has been dropping relentlessly, for years. Now this “growth” has actually turned negative.In September, exports were down 3.7% from a year earlier, the “inevitable fallout...

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Soc Gen tackled the question of a looming 'lost decade' for China

Beating up on China’s economy has become a favorite pastime for some in financial markets.To a growing number, the economy is a ticking time bomb – debt levels are sustainably high, it has an over...

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China needs financial reform to get to 6.5% growth

Overnight, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave the strongest indication yet the country will revise down its economic growth goal to 6.5%.The official target will not be known until China releases its...

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How the Amazon of China makes billions from a holiday invented for single people

$9 Billion. That’s how much Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, made in just 24 hours last November. It happened during an unofficial Chinese holiday called “Singles Day.” But what is Alibaba, what...

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Forget Black Friday — the Amazon of China makes billions in sales on this...

$9 billion. That’s how much Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, made in just 24 hours last November. It happened during an unofficial Chinese holiday called “Singles Day.”Sales on Black Friday and...

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Here's the real impact of adding the yuan to the IMF's reserve currency basket

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to include the renminbi (RMB) in its basket of reserve currencies.The RMB, or yuan, has joined the US dollar, euro, British...

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