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Chinese regulators have pushed through the debt restructuring plan of a state-owned steel trader as the government gets set for a new round of debt cleanups, Bloomberg News reported today. Sinosteel Engineering & Technology Co. yesterday received a n ...

Daily Headline - abi_admin - 09/28/2016 - 13:42 - 0 comments

While economists and many foreign investors fret about China’s spiralling debt and rising defaults, a small niche of alternative asset managers is braving the China credit space, attracted by high yields from borrowers shut out from other sources of fina ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/25/2016 - 18:45 - 0 comments

China’s economy is showing signs of stability, a welcome break for both investors and a leadership that has spent much of 2016 battling economic headwinds. But it is an engineered calm that comes at a cost, say economists, The Wall Street Journal rep ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/22/2016 - 23:12 - 0 comments

The explosive growth of spending overseas by Chinese tourists dwarfs the increase in the number of Chinese traveling abroad. The most likely reason? Disguised capital outflows, Bloomberg News reported. So says former U.S. Treasury official Brad Setser, w ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/21/2016 - 23:06 - 0 comments

According to the Chinese business publication Caixin, the first of China's massive state-owned organizations has collapsed under the weight of $2.2 billion worth of bad debt in China's interbank bond market. The company, Guangxi Nonferrous Meta ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/21/2016 - 23:06 - 0 comments

A court in southern China has formally declared bankrupt Guangxi Nonferrous Metals Group Co Ltd, an unlisted state-run metals producer that defaulted on a bond in February and missed a payment in April, Reuters reported. The firm, which is owned by the G ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/20/2016 - 23:15 - 0 comments

China's listed property developers issued 960 billion yuan (110.8 billion pounds) in bonds as of Sept. 19, more than three times the amount in the same period last year, financial magazine Caixin reported, citing data from WIND, a Chinese financial ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/20/2016 - 23:16 - 0 comments

The Chinese coastal city of Tianjin plans to issue corporate bonds to ease the debt burden of a local state-owned steelmaker — in a flagship case of restructuring in the domestic industry, the Financial Times reported. Tianjin’s city government has f ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/19/2016 - 20:44 - 0 comments

China’s debt has grown to alarming levels, according to new data from the Bank for International Settlements that highlight a big potential risk to the global economy, the Financial Times reported. What the BIS terms the country’s “credit gap” is now ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/19/2016 - 20:45 - 0 comments

A warning indicator for banking stress rose to a record in China in the first quarter, underscoring risks to the nation and the world from a rapid build-up of Chinese corporate debt, Bloomberg News reported. China’s credit-to-gross domestic product “gap” ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 09/18/2016 - 18:14 - 0 comments