The Chinese government is considering pulling about two trillion yuan, equivalent to roughly $278 billion, from offshore accounts of state-owned companies to buy stock in Chinese businesses, Bloomberg reported.
Tag: Economy
ECONOMIC UPDATE — MARKET OVERVIEW
Where equities and economies are headed, for the most, is a guessing game since there are so many wild cards that have been dealt that no one can predict how they will be played.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Merger and Acquisition took a break when the Federal Reserve and EU began aggressively raising interest rates from their zero and negative levels.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
China’s economy expanded by 5.2 percent in 2023, edging past its 5-percent target, the most modest in more than two decades, according to the country’s statistics office.
TOP TREND 2024, BANKS GO BUST
Topping last year’s record of $541 billion, in 2027 $602 billion in loans against commercial real estate are scheduled to mature, according to The Wall Street Journal.
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
In recent times, the economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that have profoundly affected the business community.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
The “Bigs” are getting back into “Big” business. As we have noted when the Central Banksters started to rapidly raise interest rates, the decade’s long merger and acquisition spree slowed down dramatically.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
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.
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.









