The author is chief China economist at Capital Economics Mark Williams China’s leaders are gathering again in Beijing, this time to discuss priorities for 2014. The major scheduled event this month is the year end Economic Work Conference. The leadership usually uses this meeting to set out priorities for the year ahead. This year, the […]

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Global asset management firm State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) announces its global outlook and highlights five key investment themes for 2014. The firm expects economic recovery will become more broad-based and self-sustaining next year. The U.S. looks set to enjoy accelerating growth. Europe’s recovery may still be fragile but the region is poised for modest […]

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Regulators ban financial institutions from doing business that involves the virtual currency, warning of danger that it could be used for criminal activity

After months of rumors and false starts, Apple has reportedly finally signed a deal with China's largest telecommunications carrier to provide 4G iPhones to Chinese consumers. News from both local and foreign media over the past few hours do not provide financial terms of the deal, but Apple's consummation of this deal puts it in […]

In many countries, the relationship between ruling majorities and electoral minorities has become combustible – and is threatening to erode democracy’s legitimacy. The unfolding crisis in Thailand – where an electoral minority has taken to the street to bring down the democratically elected government – is a case in point.

At a recent meeting in Abu Dhabi, the World Economic Forum examined three scenarios for governance – each an extrapolation of a major current trend – that could arise from the ongoing information revolution. With that revolution already changing the global balance of power, the WEF's examination could hardly be more timely.

Recent criticism of Germany's external surplus overlooks the fact that the country represents just the tip of a Teutonic iceberg: All northern European countries with a Germanic language are running a current-account surplus. Indeed, the Netherlands, S…

US vice-president, visiting Beijing, calls on Chinese leaders to reduce tension with its neighbours but stops short of urging air zone be scrapped

PM wants Britain ‘linked up to the world’s fast growing economies’ as he warns of risk of losing out by prioritising French and German

Suning Commerce Group will build a new logistics base in Fengxian, Shanghai, to support its growth in eastern China. With an area of 250,000 square meters, this new project will be a regional management headquarters and distribution center which integrates procurement settlement, e-commerce, logistics, after-sales, customer services, and training functions for the company. The total […]

During the first nine months of the year, Chinese outbound investment reached $73 billion, up 20% compared with the same period last year, according to a report published by A Capital, an Euro-Asia private equity firm based in Beijing. Chinese investment in North America hit $24.7 billion, up by almost 300% compared with last year. […]

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London-based financial advisory and investment firm Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) Asia says the company plans to launch a U.K. China Energy Efficiency Investments Fund to invest up to $200 million in energy efficiency projects in the U.K. and China, according to a company announcement. The new fund will be managed by SDCL Asia, a […]

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China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom get formal approval to build rapid mobile internet networks in the world’s biggest telecoms market

CITIC Capital Partners has acquired North Carolina-based industrial company Engineered Controls International (ECI) with the company's management team and partner investor Windjammer Capital, a U.S. middle market private equity firm. The investor consortium took over the company from Sentinel Capital Partners, a New York-based lower middle market private equity firm. Engineered Controls International provides of […]

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