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For China Bank Stocks, The Bull Run May Be Over
From: Wall Street Journal, By JAMES T. AREDDY
Date: April 23, 2007
SHANGHAI -- Odds are increasing that the high prices of Chinese bank stocks won't be sustained. One possible trigger: faster-rising interest rates.
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Foreign Banks In China Begins To Handle Yuan Deposit, Loan
From: Wall Street Journal, By JAMES T. AREDDY
Date: April 23, 2007
SHANGHAI -- More than 20 years after the world's leading banks opened outlets in China, a handful are set to grasp a long-sought prize: deposits in yuan from ordinary citizens.
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China Struggles To Rein In Strong Economic Growth
From: Wall Street Journal, By ANDREW BATSON
Date: April 20, 2007
BEIJING -- A sharp pickup in the pace of China's economic growth underscores the challenges Beijing faces in trying to overhaul the country's vast, far-flung economy and has reignited debate about the best way to guide it.
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China Union Expands at McDonald’s
From: Wall Street Journal, By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH
Date: April 7, 2007
SHANGHAI -- McDonald's Corp. said it will cooperate with China's government-affiliated trade union to set up branches at its restaurants in the southern city of Guangzhou by the end of July, as labor leaders seek to boost their influence at foreign companies.
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U.S. Piracy Case May Raise Trade Tensions With China
From: Wall Street Journal, By NEIL KING JR.
Date: April 7, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing to take its longstanding spat with China over pirated movies, music and books to the World Trade Organization, a move that could notch up trade tensions between the two countries.
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Investors Split on Chinese Stocks
From: Wall Street Journal, By By ANDREW BATSON
Date: April 4, 2007
BEIJING -- Many of the world's big investors may have had enough of Chinese stocks after a record-breaking run, yet the enthusiasm of the country's own investors for local stocks is only increasing.
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The China Tariffs
From: Wall Street Journal
Date: April 2, 2007
Can practicing protectionism promote free trade? That seems to be the strange logic of the Bush Administration, which on Friday met Congressional pressure to get tough on China with new tariffs on coated paper imports. We'd have thought the White House had learned the futility of this exercise from its 2002 steel tariff fiasco.
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China To Lower Ceiling On Foreign Borrowing
From: Wall Street Journal, By JANE LANHEE LEE and WANG MING
Date: March , 2007
SHANGHAI, China -- China moved to reduce financial firms' offshore foreign-currency borrowings in the latest attempt to address the country's lopsided balance of payments and further develop domestic financial markets.
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China Builds Commerce Codes
From: Wall Street Journal, By ANDREW BATSON
Date: March 2, 2007
BEIJING -- China's leadership is stepping up its efforts to build a legal system that can handle the demands of a complex, market-driven economy, as managing the fast-growing nation becomes increasingly challenging.
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China’s Reckoning Day On Stock Sales Appears Near
From: Wall Street Journal, By JAMES T. AREDDY
Date: March 2, 2007
SHANGHAI -- More sellers than buyers in the stock market here earlier this week ignited a fire sale that caused shares to fall world-wide, a sign that China has joined the global market economy. Yet China's transition from communism to capitalism remains a work in progress, which could mean even more sellers in the months to come.
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Best Buy Will Expand In North America, China
From: Wall Street Journal
Date: February 22, 2007
Best Buy Co. said it plans to open about 130 stores in the U.S., Canada and China in its next fiscal year.
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Chinese Takeout
From: Wall Street Journal, By LAWRENCE BRAINARD and JONATHAN FENBY
Date: February 22, 2007
Foreign investment has been a motor of China's growth, flowing into more than half a million mainland enterprises and accounting for $660 billion in asset value. Now the balance of investment is set to shift in the other direction. China will deploy its accumulated assets abroad to secure resources needed for future growth, making that nation an even greater driver of the world economy.
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Asians Usher in the Year of the Pig
From: Wall Street Journal, Associate Press
Date: February 18, 2007
BEIJING -- Asians flocked to temples, parks and Disneyland on Sunday to pray, play, eat, and celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Pig.
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McDonald’s Is Loving It in Asia
From: BusinessWeek, by Brian Bremner
Date: January 24, 2007
The fast-food giant is building drive-through restaurants in China and selling curry dishes in India to get a bigger share of the Asian market
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Beijing to Keep One-Child Policy, Acknowledges Gender Imbalance
From: Wall Street Journal, Associate Press
Date: January 24, 2007
BEIJING -- China says it won't loosen its so-called one-child policy, despite a government official's acknowledgment yesterday that the policy was partly to blame for a worsening gender-imbalance problem.
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China Mobile to Buy Paktel in First Foreign Deal
From: Wall Street Journal, By ERNEST KONG in Hong Kong and TERENCE POON and JASON DEAN in Beijing
Date: January 23, 2007
China Mobile Communications Corp. agreed to buy a small Pakistani wireless company for $284 million, the first foreign acquisition for the world's biggest cellphone-network operator and the latest sign of Corporate China's ambition to expand internationally.
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Why China Grows So Fast
From: Wall Street Journal, By MICHAEL SPENCE
Date: January 23, 2007
Sustained high growth in developing economies is a recent, post-World War II phenomenon. Using GDP figures, I take "high" to mean above 7% and "sustained" to mean over 25 years or more. These cutoffs are arbitrary, but a similar picture emerges with variants. Growth at these rates produces very substantial changes in incomes and wealth: Income doubles every decade at 7%.
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Indexes Gain Ground Region – Wide, As Hong Kong, Shanghai Hit Record Highs
From: Wall Street Journal, Associate Press
Date: January 22, 2007
Asian-Pacific markets closed higher Monday, with Hong Kong and Shanghai both reaching record closing highs, while the Japanese benchmark index hit its highest close in nine months.
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