OBOR News and Press, KraneShares MSCI One Belt One Road Index From 05/29/19

In recent weeks, it has become abundantly clear that the path of the global economy will depend on the outcome of the ongoing trade standoff between China and the United States. Investors are finally starting to grasp the implications of a full-blown trade war, an event previously considered a...

Background - Why monitor these statistics? We all know that the big economic numbers move markets. If GDP comes in - or employment, inflation, any of the big numbers - wildly different from forecast or expected then prices in equity markets will change significantly. Sadly it's rather diff...

By Daniel Shvartsman In the pre-internet, pre-Twitter ( TWTR ) days, international negotiations were no doubt volatile, but they tended to be hidden from public view until the end result came out. Leaks would happen, rumors would float, but there was something about operating in a closed r...

The Caixin PMI surveys showed the Chinese economy retaining solid business activity growth at the start of the second quarter, supported by another strong expansion in the service sector. Growth in the coming months is likely to be sustained at this steady pace according to forward-looking ind...

China churned out a record 231M tons of steel in Q1 spurred by consumption in the infrastructure sector due to government stimulus, Bloomberg reports. More news on: Global X China Materials ETF, Global X China Industrial ETF, KraneShares Zacks New China ETF, Commodities news, News on ETF...

By Ansh Chaudhary For the month of March, the ETF Deathwatch increased in size. Twenty-four exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 18 funds were removed. Of the removals, eight were removed due to improved health and 10 were due to asset managers closing their funds....

China's industrial firms posted their worst slump in profits since late 2011 in the first two months of this year, which slumped 14% Y/Y to 708B yuan ($106B), according to the National Bureau of Statistics. More news on: iShares China Large-Cap ETF, KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF, De...

While the Shanghai Composite has bounced off its 2018 low, terrible data continues to roll in. It suggests more headwinds on the horizon for China’s stock market and economy. As Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough explains in the video above, China is currently running up against ...

With the world pre-occupied on the U.S. yield curve – which is flat and already heavily inverted – many are overlooking problems from the world’s third largest bond market. I’m talking about China. The Chinese economy has for a long-time used debt, currency...

China is planning to cut the value-added tax rate that covers the manufacturing sector by 3 percentage points as part of measures to support the slowing economy, Bloomberg reports . More news on: iShares China Large-Cap ETF, KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF, Deutsche X-trackers Harvest ...