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The 2008 financial crisis hit China hard, as it did everyone else. Not every country responded like China did, though. Most couldn’t do what China did because they lacked either financial resources or political ability. China had both. And so it launched a stimulus program of mind-...
Happy Year of the Pig! This week marks the start of China’s Spring Festival, during which an estimated 3 billion trips will be made using the country’s massive transportation network of roads and rail. That figure is a slight rise from the same period last year, despite slowing e...
All the policies that worked in the Boost Phase no longer work. Natural and human systems tend to go through stages of expansion, stagnation and decline that follow what's known as the S-Curve. The dynamic isn't difficult to understand: an unfilled ecological niche is suddenly open due t...
The first of three significant events on the schedule for markets in the United States and around the world until the end of March will be the short-window when it comes to the reprieve of the most prolonged government shut down in US history that last for over one month. It is unlikely that t...
By Valentin Schmid China is a country of extremes, especially regarding economic forecasts. There are those who think "China will take over the world" with its technocratic central planning. Then there are those who say its debt bubble is so gigantic, the economy will crash and burn. The...
China's sprawling services sector maintained a solid pace of expansion in January even though growth moderated slightly, offering some support for the world’s second largest economy as manufacturing cools. More news on: iShares China Large-Cap ETF, KraneShares CSI China Internet E...
By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Research One of the key debates going into this year has been whether the bloodletting in emerging markets and sharp downdraft in China could turn around in 2019. WisdomTree's asset allocation committee increased exposure ...
Since last October I've been arguing that the equity selloff had more to do with a "panic attack" than to any serious deterioration in the economy's fundamentals. Waves of worry (e.g., a China economic slowdown, tariff wars, Trump's unpredictability, a weakening Eurozone economy, stumbling e...
President Trump is optimistic that the world’s two largest economies could reach "the biggest deal ever made" and confirmed that a U.S. delegation will visit China in mid-February for a new round of trade talks. More news on: iShares China Large-Cap ETF, KraneShares CSI China Inte...
After a long period of investment-driven growth, China is changing its policy playbook. In recent months China has rolled out tax cuts and incentives to boost consumption over investment while taking steps to further open its capital markets - a shift in approach that seems to accept a natur...