china debt

Defaults in China’s local debt market have hit record highs, catching off-guard investors  who believed the securities carried implicit state backing. Despite state efforts to ease municipal debt with new ...

The embattled company will now have more time to finalize its debt restructuring plan.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to reverse the devastating economic effects of its extreme three-year zero-COVID ...

The latest data from China shows considerable local government debts have grown faster than GDP. Given the opacity of ...

New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has sounded a warning over debt levels among the Pacific nations, saying ...

WASHINGTON—The United States struck a deal with Ecuador to refinance its China debt, as part of an effort ...

News Analysis Chinese corporate bond defaults reached a record this year. After decades of zero defaults, China has ...

Commentary On Aug. 5, the U.S. Treasury declared China a currency manipulator for allowing its currency, the yuan ...

As expected, China announced the first round of 2019 monetary easing measures on Jan. 4, the first in ...

NEW DELHI—India will give financial assistance of $1.4 billion to the Maldives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on ...

Household debt in China rose to a record high in 2017, putting another hole in the armor of ...

Beijing and Hong Kong approved a cross-border bond trading program, called bond connect, hoping to attract a new ...

When China’s richest man and its most successful real estate developer calls the country’s overheating property market “the ...

Nobody believes the official Chinese economic data, but people still have to use it in their analysis because there ...

China has a debt problem, and it’s desperate enough to employ drastic—and dangerous means—to counter it.

For years the world has marveled at China's foreign exchange reserves ($4 trillion at their peak in 2014) ...

Previously the engine of relatively efficient growth, it looks like the private sector has given up in China. ...

One year after the mini-devaluation of the Chinese currency, China is getting desperate about its corporate debt situation ...

On the surface, China is talking the reform talk. But is it also walking the walk? There are many examples ...

The more debt the merrier, the saying goes, at least until the party stops and the hangover starts. ...

Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping seldom comments directly on the economy. Instead, he lets his premier, Li Keqiang, do the ...

The chief economist of Citigroup is not your average economist. Yes, Willem Buiter studied plenty of economic theory ...

He was right about subprime, right about gold, and early in his call for a Japanese crisis. Is ...

  Any kind of improvement will have to start somewhere. For the Chinese economy, the starting point is ...

There is uncertainty about what happens if Britain chooses to exit and some risks, but many financial analysts ...

After market crises, it sometimes takes a while for the real picture to emerge, the reasons why Western ...

Not a day goes by without talk and commentary about China's debt situation. Yesterday, it was Société Générale's ...