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| Olympic Stadium With a Design to Remember
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF - Published: August 5, 2008
The National Stadium reaffirms architecture’s civilizing role in a nation that is struggling to forge a new identity out of a maelstrom of inner conflict. | New funding options for domestic property firms
By Wen Xin (China Daily) - Updated: 2008-08-04 10:28
Domestic property companies are turning to new funding options as bank loans become increasingly harder to obtain at a time when the government is tightening its monetary policies to rein in rising inflation.
"Domestic property companies still rely heavily on bank loans, which are difficult to get at a time when the government is pursuing a tightening policy," says Shuai Hu, an analyst at Haitong Securities in Shanghai.
Turning to the capital market for funding through IPOs and new share issues seems increasingly viable because of deepening investor apathy following the stock market crash which has brought the leading indicator down more than 50 percent since its peak in October. | Hope of China's Stock Market “Olympics Boom” Fading
By Xin Fei - Epoch Times Staff
As the Olympics approach, there is still no sign of expected rising on the bearish stock market in China. Meanwhile, state run media continues to trumpet that the “Olympics will hold the market steady.”
The Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) claimed on July 28 that it would spare no effort in keeping the capital market stable. The National Development and Reform Commission admitted that one of the most important reforms in 2008 is to stabilize the stock market. However, on July 29 and 30, China’s A-share market has continued to go downhill. | | It's not just Greenspan who is wary of China's casino-like market
By William Pesek Bloomberg News - Published: May 28, 2007
TOKYO: Alan Greenspan and Li Ka-shing may understand more than most what the comedian Rodney Dangerfield meant when he said "I don't get no respect."
Here you have Greenspan, the man often called the greatest central banker who ever lived, and Li, Asia's richest man, worrying aloud about asset bubbles in China.
The benchmark CSI 300 index in China is up 95 percent so far this year, despite a 9.2 percent plunge on one day in February. That event became a buying opportunity for investors.
Rational decision makers would normally quake at warnings about the casino mentality in Shanghai. Greenspan, a former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, after all, is a very cautious fellow who doesn't utter a word before considering what damage it might do. So when he said last week that stocks in China faced a "dramatic contraction," he was probably far more concerned than he let on. | If you want to see a real bubble in the making right now, you needn’t look far: China.
The Shanghai Composite has been on a rampage. Since bottoming in the summer of 2005 it has risen ~300%. Just recently, it hit a bump earlier this year and since bottoming in early February 2007 it has risen 50% (and counting). No matter how you look at it, China has gone parabolic. | GLOBAL INVESTOR
Listen to the professor
Princeton's Burton Malkiel says U.S. investors are underweight China
By Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch - Last update: 6:21 p.m. EDT May 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- When it comes to China, history is bound to repeat itself and investors should be ready.
"People don't realize that in 1820, China was not only the most populated nation in the world, not only with the most land area, but was the greatest economic power in the world," said Princeton University Economics Prof. Burton Malkiel, who had a packed room of portfolio managers, analysts and certified financial planners hanging on his every word Wednesday evening at a presentation for the CFA Society of Los Angeles. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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