All Posts Tagged With: "China"

How to Profit From A China Investing Strategy

Investors who abandon China now will live to regret their decision.

That’s why we say that every investor has to have a China investing strategy.

With the benchmark Shanghai stock index down 56% so far this year, you might find that to…

22Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Exclusive Interview: Jim Rogers Continues to View China as the World’s Best Long-Term Profit Play

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Despite its many problems, China remains such a strong long-term profit play that giving up on that country now would be like selling all your U.S. stocks at the start of the 1900s - before America created massive…

20Aug2008 | Money Morning | 1 comment | Continued

China Plans $58 Billion Stimulus Package and Rate Cuts as Policy Shifts from Inflation to Growth

China’s policymakers are considering a $58 billion (400 billion yuan) economic stimulus package, and will ease monetary policy later this year, as focus shifts from taming inflation to promoting economic growth, said Frank Gong, chief China economist at JP Morgan…

20Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Strong Dollar Rally Causes Gold Prices to Tumble

Gold prices tumbled below $800 per ounce for the first time since late 2007 Friday, as the continuing U.S. dollar rally sparked an across-the-board retreat in commodity prices.

Gold closed Friday at $792 an ounce, a decline of $22.40, or 2.75%.…

19Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Three Ways to Profit from the Overlooked China-France Alliance

France and China are - let’s face it - natural buddies.

France has traditionally looked for a political counterweight to the United States, and China is beginning to provide one. China wants to keep the European Union from aligning against…

12Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Why Every Investor Should Have a China Investment Strategy

As we’ve said time and again here at Money Morning, every investor has to have a China investment strategy.

And with the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games taking place today (Friday), this is probably as good a…

8Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

IPOs Dry Up in Developed World but Emerging Markets Show Promise

Initial public offerings ground to a halt this year in most of the developed world, as a credit crunch and bear market forced private companies to either postpone offerings, or cancel them all together.

But emerging market IPOs have flourished,…

31Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Dubai: More Bubble or More Boom? Time Will Quickly Tell

Dubai has plenty of qualities that catch an investor’s eye.

-The emirate has the world’s only (self-proclaimed) 7-star hotel.
-Dubai also is home to the biggest financial market in the Middle East, which is itself publicly quoted and trades at 25 times…

23Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

How Coal Shortages in China Will Spark More Foreign Takeovers of U.S. Assets

The recent buyout of Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (ANR) by Cleveland Cliffs Inc. (CLF) could ignite more than $50 billion worth of M&A deals in the U.S. coal industry over the next few years as Mainland China rushes to solve…

21Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Growing Brand Awareness of China Consumers Equals Profit

China’s emerging middle class is chasing after the global consumer dream: name brand products.

And the companies that make those products are profiting from China’s growing desire for genuine merchandise rather than cheap knock-offs to grow their brands throughout the…

7Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

GO EAST, AMERICA! GO EAST!

It happened about six days before I expected it, but at long last the hardball tactics of iron ore giant Rio Tinto resulted in an 85% increase in iron ore prices this year. It happened earlier this week, after eight months of…

26Jun2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Chinese Real Estate

Breaking News: Straight from China…

Wow, what a week this has been!

I landed in China about seven days ago and have been completely amazed by how much it’s changed in the last few years. I haven’t set foot in Beijing since…

26Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

China and U.S. Commence Trade Talks with $14 Billion in Deals, but Loose Ends Remain

The United States and China got their fourth round of economic dialogue off to a good start yesterday (Tuesday), with the announcement of $14 billion in business deals. However, several points of tension ranging from currency devaluation to investment restrictions must still…

18Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in China: Wrestling this Growing Behemoth

Unless you’ve been asleep for the past 10 years, you know that the hot investment ideas all come from China these days. It makes sense. With 1/5th of the world’s population, and a stronger desire to gain “developed country” status…

9Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

Who’s Afraid of Emerging Markets?

China is the new Germany.

At the end of the Second World War, Germany was an “emerging market.” It was industrializing rapidly and producing brisk economic growth. Today, Germany is a mature “developed market” that grows slowly if it grows at…

6Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

China Isn’t Increasing Oil Imports

Wow… Here is an act of entirely commendable proportions.

China is announcing to the world that it will NOT INCREASE OIL IMPORTS due to the impact of the recent earthquake swarm. How utterly, totally responsible of them!

Whoah! Say hello to oil price moderation,…

6Jun2008 | Energy and Oil | 0 comments | Continued

Lost In Translation: The Subtle Dealings Between China and Japan Can Lead to Powerful Profits

There’s an incredible story taking place in Asia.

Based on my 20 years of experience in the region and formal academic study, you can believe me when I say that this may well be the most pivotal event in 20 centuries…

27May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

China Earthquake: The economic aftershocks

A Chinese friend of mine spent most of last week on the phone, checking up on family. He’s from Sichuan, the Chinese province most affected by last Monday’s earthquake. The death toll is now expected to exceed 50,000. But millions…

19May2008 | J. Christoph Amberger | 0 comments | Continued

Two Ways to Profit as China and Japan Quietly Forge the Most Powerful Trading Alliance in the World

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yauo Fukuda met recently and signed some modest cooperation agreements. That doesn’t sound much to get excited about, until you consider how well the Chinese and Japanese economies fit together.

Think of it…

16May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued