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All this time I’ve been studying Chinese on my own and making little progress. Who knew all I needed was a good migraine. Supposedly, a British woman speaks with a Chinese accent after suffering a severe migraine. And it might not be a load of BS. There are documented [...]
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Is China SAFE for Private Equity Investors? China Venture News [...]
Peter Fuhrman submits:
One way or another, every good money-making idea ends up in China. But, they don’t all succeed. Possible case in point: current efforts by China’s Citic Capital Partners to create a homegrown competitor to the global private equity leaders Blackstone, TPG, KKR, Carlyle.
These global firms started and prospered in the US at [...]
Kurt Brouwer submits:
Red flags [pun intended] seem to be flying for Chinese stocks as the Shanghai Composite Stock Index plunged 4.79% — today. I’m not a technical trader or slavish chart follower, but when I look at this chart it is unsettling. This chart shows a steep downturn in [...]
Tim Iacono submits:
Lost in all the news about Goldman Sachs and their new legal troubles tied to excesses in the U.S. housing market a few years back is news that the Chinese government seems intent on “pricking” their current housing bubble as reported in China Daily (a predicament that U.S. politicians and Wall Street types [...]
Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit:
With a decline of 4.79% overnight, China’s Shanghai Composite stock index had its worst day in over six months as government officials enacted measures meant to cool the country’s overheating economy. Looking at a chart of the index, Monday’s decline caused some major technical damage. Besides the [...]
Prieur du Plessis submits:
Goldman jitters and the pledge of China’s central bank to immediately implement new lending rules to curtail property speculation have resulted in the Chinese Shanghai Composite Index plunging by a massive 4.8% this morning.
After today’s sharp sell-off, the Index (2,980 at the time of writing) is [...]
Greentech Media submits:
by Michael Kanellos
While startups have played a crucial role in getting the green industry off the ground, the future will likely be dominated by large, sprawling conglomerates. Why? Green technology essentially involves revamping the physical infrastructure of the modern world: replacing coal-fired power plants with wind turbines, building [...]
Edward Hugh submits:
China is evidently both a minefield and a potential graveyard for would-be global economists, the sort of place where reputations are made and lost in the twinkle of a dragon’s eye, so I think we had better tread rather carefully here. However, having duly noted that only fools rush in, here I [...]
Xiaofan Zhang submits:
Chinese online game stocks have underperformed the market significantly since entering 4Q09 earnings season on February 1, when Changyou.com (CYOU) reported results. The CWD China Online Game Stock Index has merely risen 2.5% in this period, while the NASDAQ Composite Index has surged 15.5% (Chart 1). Heading into the 1Q10 earnings season, [...]