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Volatility to remain for next 3,4 months – Shaun Rein
While the Chinese stock markets did not plunge after trade resumed after the Chinese New Year, business analyst Shaun Rein expects the markets to remain volatile for the next 3 to 4 months, he tells Money Control.Read More →
How can governments stimulate innovation? Get out of the way – William Bao Bean
Everywhere governments are looking for ways to encourage innovations. For super-innovator William Bao Bean the solution is pretty simple: get out of the way. And give visas where possible. Compensating VC for possible losses, like Shanghai wants to do, is certainly the wrong way. Singapore on the other hand does a good job.Read More →
Are we heading for a financial crisis in 2017? – Ann Rutledge
The odds are that we are heading for a new financial crisis, says ABS-expert Ann Rutledge in Forbes. “So, if you ask me whether we are going to have another global financial crisis in 201. “I would say the odds are good. This one probably started in 2013 and by now is well under way.”Read More →
Central bank moves in to ease turmoil – Victor Shih
The governor of China´s central bank, the People´s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan tried to ease the expected turmoil on the financial markets ahead of their opening after Lunar New Year. Zhou tries to save the few reforms he was able to achieve, says financial expert Victor Shih to Bloomberg.Read More →
Chinese lose trust in their currency – Shaun Rein
Almost a trillion US dollar worth of capital has left China over the past year, showing a profound lack of confidence among its citizens, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in the New York Times. “Companies don’t want renminbi and individuals don’t want renminbi.”Read More →
Consumer spending, even more room for growth – Sara Hsu
Many growth indexes in China might point south, consumer spending is one of the few that might indicate government policies might be working, writes financial analyst Sara Hsu in the Diplomat. Americans still consume per capita 53 times more goods and services than Chinese, so there is much room to growth, she says.Read More →
Should we worry about China´s economy? – Arthur Kroeber
The ups and especially downs of China´s economy keeps on shocking the rest of the world. What can we expect, economist Arthur Kroeber asks for the Brookings Institute. Did the international markets overreact? In China more commitment to reform is needed.Read More →
How Opera fits into China´s browser war – William Bao Bean
The purchase of the Oslo-based Opera browser by a conglomerate of Chinese companies for US$1.2 billion took many by surprise. Not Shanghai-based VC William Bao Bean, who sees the purchase as a logical step in the fierce competition in China, he tells in Quartz.Read More →
A rocky road for multinationals amid China´s slowdown – Sara Hsu
China´s farewell to double-digit growth is causing multinational companies headaches, also in the services industry where China is heading to, writes financial analyst Sara Hsu in the Diplomat. Now the downturn seems manageable, but she sees a rocky way ahead.Read More →
Did Facebook become a WeChat clone? – William Bao Bean
Chinese companies have often been blamed for copying Western innovation and patents. But now China takes the lead in mobile innovations, the argument seems to go the other way. Many of the features we know from WeChat we see now popping up at Facebook. Innovator William Bao Bean discusses whether Facebook has become a WeChat clone.Read More →
China´s economy lacks direction – Arthur Kroeber
China´s economy might not be in acute trouble, she is certainly lacking directing, says economist Arthur Kroeber in the Irish Times ” China is unlikely to collapse, but it does risk losing its way.”Read More →
Chinese buy more than ever overseas – Rupert Hoogwerf
While the luxury good suffer from the anti-graft crackdown, what the Chinese buy, they buy increasingly abroad, says China Rich List founder Rupert Hoogewerf at the presentation of his eleventh Hurun Best of the Best Awards 2015, a benchmark for the luxury sector, according to the Shanghai Daily.Read More →