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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 than any other country in the world, China has presented everyone with strong growth opportunities.
Unfortunately, most investors just don’t get it. They’ve been buying up stocks just because they say “China” in their names. It’s just like 1999, when people bought stocks just because they ended with “dot-com.” And we all know how that turned out.
I’ve been laying it all…
9Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | Comments Off | ContinuedHong Kong Gaining Prominence as Leading Global Financial Center
At a time when Europe and the United States are shedding jobs in the financial sector, one financial center is only adding to its ranks: Hong Kong.
Though it currently holds third place behind London and New York, Hong Kong’s presence as a world financial center is growing by the day. Credit Suisse Group (CS) is the latest financial firm to move a top executive to the Asian city.
Vikram Gandhi, the Swiss bank’s head of global financial institutions group, will relocate to Hong Kong from New York this summer to tap growth in Asia, Bloomberg News reported.
“As part of our ongoing commitment…
21May2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedThe View From China: As it Continues to Change, China Offers a Growing Number of Profit Plays to Investors Who are Willing to Look
IN THE AIR, ENROUTE FROM HONG KONG TO JAPAN – The fiery orange sunrise I see out my window is mesmerizing.
I’m always filled with awe over the dawn of a new day, especially during those long trips when sunrise jolts me awake from the kind of cramped, restless sleep familiar to travelers the world over.
On this day, however, I’m wide-awake. It’s the start of the newest leg of my Asian adventure. I’m tucked into seat 11A, and am quickly lost in thought. I keep thinking about different parts of the 15-day investor trip I just finished leading through Mainland China and…
14May2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedThe View From China: As its Securities Regulations are Modernized, the Red Dragon’s Profit Potential Will Soar
HONG KONG – The question came to me as I was standing on the floor of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange here. I’d be willing to wager that quite a few investors – both within China and back in the United States – are wondering about this, as well.
Here it is: Will China implement a long-rumored capital-gains tax, and risk (another) major sell-off as a result?
Only Beijing’s inner circle knows for sure, and that only stokes investor speculation. The uncertainty can lead to rampant, knee-jerk sell-offs each time the scuttlebutt of an “imminent” tax surfaces. And those rumors have been surfacing…
13May2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedLunar Horoscope for the World Economy: “Don’t worry about 2008,” say Chinese: “Next year will be tops!”
The Year of the Mouse threatens to see a build-up of international tensions, natural and air disasters, and a more turbulent stock market, soothsayers and analysts say.
As the Year of the Pig ends, followers of Chinese feng shui will be scurrying to consult fortune-tellers, astrologers, feng shui geomancers to guide their year ahead.
Chinese fortunes are based on a belief that events are dictated by the different balances in the elements that make up the earth — gold, wood, water, fire and earth.
Feng shui master Raymond Lo says this year will see the earth element sitting atop water, suggesting an outward…
11Feb2008 | J. Christoph Amberger | Comments Off | Continued
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