The world’s investment managers no longer see Chinese stocks as essential to their portfolios, according to Bloomberg’s analysis of 14 U.S. pension funds.
Tag: Economy
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SPOTLIGHT TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
Years of overbuilding and the transition to remote work has raised the U.S. national office vacancy rate to 19.6 percent, compared to 18.8 percent a year ago, Moody’s Analytics reported, the highest since at least 1979, the year Moody’s began tracking the data.
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WWIII: READY TO DIE?
Gerald Celente introduces the 9 January 2024 issue of The Trends Journal and warns about the Ukraine and Israel wars, and the direction of the economy.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Consolidation is the name of the “Bigs” game. The more they own the more they control... it’s the way of the power hungry world. As we have noted since the Central Banksters started to rapidly raise interest rates, the decade’s long merger and acquisition spree is over.
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
“On the path ahead, winds and rain are the norm” for the Chinese economy, president Xi Jinping told his countrymen in a New Year’s Eve speech.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Consolidation is the name of the “Bigs” game. The more they own the more they control… it’s the way of the power hungry world.
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC MALAISE
China’s factory output increased 6.6 percent in November, year on year, beating economists’ forecasts. Retail sales jumped 10.1 percent on an annual basis, although they fell short of analysts’ expectations.
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SPOTLIGHT: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
Hedge funds have become short sellers—investors betting an asset’s value will fall—in commercial real estate.
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LUXURY RETAILERS INDITEX, FARFETCH SEE A BLEAKER FUTURE
Inditex, a Spanish upscale clothier and fast-fashion company that owns the Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear brands, reported a sales increase of 6.6 percent in the three months ending 31 October, less than analysts had expected and falling by nearly half of the more than 10-percent gain the company had averaged over the past two years.