China Evergrande’s Debt-Crisis Fallout: Losses, Layoffs and More Defaults

Listen to article (2 minutes) When China Evergrande Group began struggling under a mountain of debt last year, it quietly set off a chain reaction across the country.  Chinese authorities prevented a ...

China’s EV Startups Suffer Widening Losses Despite Sales Boom

Sept. 19, 2022 6:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) HONG KONG—China’s electric-vehicle market is booming, but the country’s hottest EV startups are seeing losses grow even as sales rise. Rising ba...

A $100 Billion Comedown: Soaring Defaults Shrink Asia’s Junk-Bond Market

Once the place to be for yield-seeking global investors, Asia’s junk-bond market has shrunk drastically and new debt issuance has slowed to a trickle. Less than 18 months ago, the dollar-bond market f...

How to Invest in Commodities Using Funds

Commodities are rarely exciting—and the price of copper, corn, or even oil doesn’t stir investors the way a tweet from Elon Musk does. Yet commodities sit at the crossroads of three of today’s biggest...