Bloomberg
May 22, 2015
With the oil price dropping as much as it has over the past nine months, one would expect China’s state-run oil giants to go on a shopping spree abroad. China
May 20, 2015
It’s scary stock-market ratio day! Bloomberg’s Lu Wang and Jennifer Kaplan point out that economist James Tobin’s Q ratio — companies’ market value divided
May 20, 2015
Zhou Xiaochuan is governor of the People’s Bank of China. But among some financial types, he’s earning another, less enviable title: the killer of weekends. O
May 19, 2015
China is either at or near the so-called Lewis turning point, where it is no longer hugely productive to shift workers from agriculture to manufacturing. Now, g
May 16, 2015
Last week Australia’s Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest iron ore producer, made a bold bet on China’s steelmaking industry. There’s one small problem: T
May 13, 2015
The longer China’s economy stalls, the lonelier Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, is certain to get. There’s simply no playbook for a
May 09, 2015
From Tokyo to Mumbai, there’s been plenty of anxious chatter recently about how China’s bull market — which turned 883 days old this week — may have finally
May 09, 2015
As Brent crude oil reached more than $68 per barrel Wednesday, a high for 2015, analysts started to backtrack on earlier predictions of $40-$50 oil. The rebou
May 06, 2015
Following a year of China’s flagrant and aggressive activities in contested waters, some in Washington are calling for President Obama to cancel China’s invit
May 05, 2015
In retrospect, HSBC’s decision in 1993 to abandon Hong Kong for London’s Canary Wharf was one of modern history’s worst business moves. It seemed perfectly w