Many Chinese developers have halted or delayed construction on presold homes due to cash flow problems. Pictured here is a property construction site in Jiangsu province, China, on Oct. 17, 2022. Futu...
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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...
Chinese property developers’ cash flows have plunged by more than 20%
Analysts generally expect state-owned enterprises will perform better than non-state-owned developers in the latest real estate slump. Pictured here in Guangxi, China, on Aug. 15, 2022, is a real esta...
Goldman Sachs cuts earnings outlook for MSCI China to zero growth
In China, people typically buy apartments before they are completed. Pictured here on June 28, 2022, are unfinished residences in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Future Publishing | Future ...
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...
Moody’s downgrades China property developer Shimao over debt troubles
Signage at the Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel, developed by Shimao Group Holdings, in Shanghai, China, on Feb. 9, 2022. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Moody’s downgr...
Leadership of China’s Xi threatened by Covid, real-estate crisis
George Soros, billionaire founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese leader Xi Jinping&#...
China’s property problems spread to once-healthy developers like Shimao
InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, a luxury hotel developed by Shimao and managed by IHG, opened in 2018 and is pictured here on Oct. 11, 2020. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING —...
China Evergrande says contracted sales dropped 38.7% in 2021
An exterior view of China Evergrande Centre in Hong Kong, China March 26, 2018. Bobby Yip | Reuters BEIJING — Indebted property developer China Evergrande’s contracted sales plunged last year as...