ThinkstockWhen Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan said to avoid emerging markets in 2014, many investors and market participants thought that the firms were merely sticking to a 2013 trend for too long. Now…
The U.S. markets were closed on Monday, January 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Day. Europe and Asia, however, were not closed.
ThinkstockIf you think that the United States is down, the move was even worse in China. Barron’s took its shot at a coming credit crisis in China over the weekend, but what…
ThinkstockIf China is truly the world’s growth engine, there is about to be less growth and less reason to be optimistic about the global recovery. HSBC has trimmed its gross domestic product…
ThinkstockChinese New Year is almost upon us. The new year is the Year of the Snake. Other nations with stock markets that celebrate Chinese New Year with multiday holidays include Macau, Malaysia,…
ThinkstockByron Wien announced his predictions for 10 big surprises for 2013 this week to kick off the new year. Wien is now vice chairman at Blackstone Advisory Partners, and this was his…
ThinkstockChina may be the world’s growth engine and the world’s manufacturer, but some still consider it the short-sell of a lifetime. There is also very rarely any middle ground on the subject…
China has been trying to hold its own. The obvious growth shows how dependent the nation is upon exporting finished goods to the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Standard & Poor’s is keying…
Jon C. Ogg The China Fund, Inc. (NYSE: CHN) is a closed-end mutual fund rather than an exchange-traded fund. It also has traded in a sloppy manner where the fund often tracks its net asset…
Jon C. Ogg TrimTabs is showing what many investors might have expected. After such a volatile year in the stock market, investors are seeking safety in the nearly no-income offered by bond funds and bank savings…
It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized “AAA” rating, the threat of downgrades hangs over…
The old saying goes, “When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.” But what about when Europe gets the flu and when China and India drink the tap…
Fund manager Jim Chanos has been pretty vocal about the risks in China from its economy to its debt levels to its real estate market. He goes on to say that real…
Jon C. Ogg Estimates of the amount of Chinese bank lending total nearly $7.5 trillion. Of that total about 30%, or $2.2 trillion, has been lent through a central government program that puts enormous amounts…
Jon C. Ogg Fears of inflation and increased oversight into accounting practices are causing US investors to pull funds from China-focused ETFs, with a parallel interest in putting more funds into Brazilian equity ETFs. Oddly,…
