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Regional trade shift in the spotlight at Shanghai Cooperation Organization

China's warming ties to Russia were on display on Thursday at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan. The relationship between the countries had been growing over the past decade, as the two nations seek to counter...

China's inflation hit 2-year high

China July consumer price index +2.7% Y/Y vs. + 2.9% consensus, +2.5% prior. All eyes are set on <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/3869908-wednesdays-economic-calendar?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Amarket-news%7Csec...

Mortgage crisis set to further strain China's weakened economy

Trouble is brewing in China's property market, which is coming off a major debt-fueled building boom. A liquidity crisis that was headlined last year by the default of China Evergrande (<a href="https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/EGRNF?utm_medium=re...

Biden met with Xi as Congress passed China competition bill

President Biden and Xi Jinping ended a two-hour call on Thursday with plans to arrange their first in-person meeting since Biden took office (Xi also hasn't left China since the pandemic given the country's strict zero-COVID strategy). The leader...

China's full-year GDP target may be beyond reach after Q2 slowdown

Bucking a trend across most of global equities, Chinese stocks have rallied since the beginning of May as severe COVID-19 lockdowns came to an end. Some of that optimism may be running out, however, as cracks appear in the world's second-largest ...

Tariff talk: White House seeks to ease inflation while keeping leverage on China

Chinese tariff relief appears to be back on the table at the White House as the Biden administration continues to confront red-hot inflation readings. At a basic level, some economists have found that Chinese exporters generally didn't lower pric...

A $12 Billion South African Fixed-Income Manager Plans Startup Fund

SEC Rejects Grayscale Bid to Turn Biggest Bitcoin Fund Into ETF