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August 28 , 2016
  • Wall Street Journal reports that The calm in China's currency is making some investors uneasy. Twice in the past year, sudden drops in the value of the yuan have rattled global markets, sparking concerns that a deeper decline was at hand as officials struggle to orchestrate an economic "soft landing" following years of debt-fueled growth. Since then, the People's Bank of China has calmed the waters by improving communications and the government has increased stimulus in a bid to stabilize growth. The Federal Reserve's decision to delay rate increases has kept a lid on the value of the U.S. dollar, relieving some of the pressure on the yuan. Yet in a refrain familiar by now to investors the world over, analysts are worrying that stimulus alone won't be enough to get China's growth back on track and support the yuan indefinitely. Fundamental indicators of Chinese economic health continue to deteriorate, a sign to skeptics that the currency remains overvalued and a reminder of the challenges facing the world's second-largest economy. "China has done a good job in anchoring market expectations and using all the tools in its policy toolbox to stabilize the economy, but it hasn't fixed the underlying problems," said David Loevinger, a managing director at TCW Group, which has $194.6 billion of assets under management.

  • Reuters reports that Profits earned by China's industrial firms grew at their fastest pace in four months in July, aided by a pick-up in sales and reduced costs, the statistics bureau said on Saturday. Profits in July rose 11.0 percent to 523.01 billion yuan, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, the fastest growth rate since March. "Although the growth in industrial profits has accelerated, we still haven't seen an obvious pick up in demand in the market," NBS official He Ping said in a statement accompanying the data. He said challenges posed to strong industrial profit growth include rising management costs and the costs of tackling overcapacity.
  • PRI reports Throughout its 100-year history, US National Parks have served as a model for other countries trying to set up their own networks of protected spaces. Now China is quietly planning its own national parks system And, like Costa Rica and India before them, the Chinese are looking toward America. "They've visited several locations in the US, and they're basically trying to get ideas on how US parks are managed," said Beijing-based science journalist Kathleen McLaughlin. About two dozen national parks are planned, ranging in size from small urban parks like the National Mall in Washington, DC, to a park in northeastern China more than twice the size of Yellowstone aimed at protecting Siberian tigers and leopards.


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