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Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... diapers and milks and what-nots for, more consumption and in time, a larger pool of young workers to care for the aged. More Chinese on the planet! Though it won't be until after nine months - allowing for pre-mature and post-mature nativities - before ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... the uncertainty over the quarter was a series of events in China which raised doubts for many about how successfully the Chinese government will manage its transition to a more sustainable economy. "Our approach looks through this short-term volatility ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... the seventh and eight paragraphs - we're not meant to see it, it'll get in the way of today's good doomsday narrative. Chinese exports fell... but they went down by 3.7% over the year - much, much less than the expected 6.0% drop and better than August's ...

Aussie fintech partners with Alibaba

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... line facility. In other parts of the world, Alibaba.com's e-Credit line is available only for import transactions from Chinese suppliers. A separate fintech lender partnership has also been established between FundX and Collaborate Corporation (ASX:CL8). ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... September. "Bloody Monday" (24 August) - the day the All Ords dropped by more than 4%, S&P 500 index went into a correction, Chinese equities recorded their biggest one-day dive since June 2007, Germany's bourse fell into a bear market, commodity prices ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... out to become the world's fourth most used payments currency. International payments provider 'Swift' reports that the Chinese yuan accounted for 2.79% of global payments in value terms last August - up from 2.3% in the previous month. The US dollar ...

Life powers Chinese insurance industry

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... report showed that life insurance represented 62.7% of gross premiums written at the end of 2014. Similarly, growth of Chinese life insurance was 18% in 2014, compared to 8% the previous year. In contrast, growth of general insurance fell from 17% in ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... quarters of declining GDP) is not met." (The Conversation). "Australia will be the worst-hit advanced economy from slowing Chinese investment growth, according to International Monetary Fund research. Only Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Zambia and Chile ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... that the union is doomed. But they're still waiting," Sicilia said. On China Sicilia said if investors lose faith in the Chinese government's ability to control their economy and China's 7% annual growth target appears unachievable, then commodity dependent ...