China Rate Cut: Unintended Consequence
Anthony Xu - Seeking Alpha - Tue May 12, 12:48PM CDT
China announced an interest rate cut of 25 basis points over the weekend after recent disappointing macro-economic data. There is hope that the easy monetary policy can help China reverse the slowdown. However, the rate cut may have unintended...
Souring Loans Weigh On China's Big 4 Banks
Epoch Times - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 30, 4:59PM CDT
By Fan Yu A most obvious symptom of China's ailing manufacturing sector can be gleaned from studying its banks' balance sheets. China's Big Four state banks provided much of the financing during the country's manufacturing growth over the last two...
CHIX: 18.84 (+0.37)
Bank Stocks - Forget Canada, Buy China
Mark Liew - Seeking Alpha - Wed Dec 10, 1:54PM CST
Canadian Banks In a previous post last month, I wrote about how Canadian banks were trading at dangerous valuations. Since then, the 4 large Canadian banks have all reported disappointing earnings, and the stocks have sold off about 4% (there...
BMO: 64.38 (-0.17), TD: 46.05 (-0.20), RY: 65.51 (-0.27), BNS: 54.07 (-0.25)
Qatar's AgBank Selldown: Winter For Bank Shares?
Doug Young - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Nov 03, 1:23PM CST
Bottom line: Shares of China's big 4 banks could see some upside in the next year, as they work with Beijing to keep their bad loans and slowing profit growth within government-set limits. A major sell-down by one of Agricultural Bank of China's ...
Best Asian Stock Ideas Today
Aviate - Seeking Alpha - Fri Oct 24, 5:26AM CDT
When does Chinese loosening cause the market to rally? Oil Search - strategic review release CSR - performing like a train China Construction Bank - 3Q result German Manufacturing PMI for October rises to 51.8; forecast 49.5 1. When...
Glance: The biggest IPOs in history
AP - Fri Sep 05, 4:55PM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group is seeking to raise up to $24.3 billion in a initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, which would value the company at $163 billion. Those are both IPO records. Here's a look at some of the largest global IPOs ever, based on records from data provider Dealogic.
V: 69.57 (-0.43), FB: 80.42 (-0.95), NTT: 34.97 (+1.08), GM: 34.91 (+0.26)