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One bank is said to be making provisions for non-payment of loan while others prepare to roll over some of their near-term debt obligations
Evergrande's financial woes have potentially destabilising consequences for the banking and financial system that may reverberate through the economy.
Asia’s investors struggled to keep up with Wall St amid Covid fears, the Evergrande debt crisis and China’s regulatory crackdown draining the enthusiasm on trading floors
(AF) Beijing has stamped out financial blogs and social media, choking off a valuable source of data that had...
Positive US inflation data failed to lift the region’s markets as Covid’s impact and news of Beijing’s latest series of crackdowns - this time on Macau’s casinos - saw shares slide
Impending political change in Japan has spurred the Nikkei to new peaks but worries over an overheating US economy, the tapering of Washington’s stimulus package and Beijing’s regulatory crackdowns dampened the mood elsewhere
The forecasting firm predicts that local authorities in China will pull out all the stops to put off a default and mitigate any economic fallout
Factory gate inflation in the US soared to over 8% in August while China’s continuing regulatory crackdown saw market heavyweight Alibaba plunge more than 4% after officials ordered sweeping changes to payment app Alipay
Brands such as Burberry are going from strength to strength in China despite official criticism of Western consumer labels
Tech giants Tencent, NetEase, Alibaba and JD.com regained some of their losses following China’s latest crackdown while analysts hailed the feel-good factor after the world’s economic super powers started talking again
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