Syngenta and China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) have not submitted to the EU Antitrust grant proposals to get the go-ahead to the acquisition of $ 43 billion of the Swiss group of agro-chemicals and the news has caused the collapse of Syngenta, at Zurich stock exchange the swiss company lost more than 9%.
Mondo TV has reached an agreement with Nine Hong Technology, a Hong Kong-based company, for the purchase by the latter of a share of 70% of the exploitation rights of the new projects that Mondo TV will produce with Henan York Animation , announced a few days ago, and two other projects for China and 10% of the exploitation rights in the rest of the world.
China’s September exports fell 10% to $184.5 billion from a year earlier, far worse than expected, the steepest annual decline since January, after a reasonable performance in August. In local currency terms, exports were down 5.6% while imports were up 2.2%.
Exports fell across all markets, with an 8.1% decline in exports to the US, while exports to Europe dropped by almost 10%. Imports fell 1.9% to $142.5 billion, also down from a 1.5% rise in August; economists expected imports to rise 1%.
Postal Savings Bank of China closed its placement on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong raising $ 7.4 billion and recording the largest world’s largest IPO this year and the biggest since listing in New York of the online commerce giant Alibaba in 2014, 25 billion dollars. The evaluation by $ 7.4 billion of PSBC is still lower than expected by the same company that aimed to collect more than $ 8 billion.
China is creating the second largest steel group in the world.
According to Chinese media, it could be announced in the week the takeover by Baosteel Group, government-company, China’s second giant of the sector, which would incorporate Wuhan Iron and Steel Group. The two companies are currently in fourth and eleventh place in the world ranking of steel producers and, according to figures by the World Steel Association, combined annual capacity of the two companies in 2015 was around to 60.7 million tons, behind only to Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal.
China’s economy is confident, but has not yet started to run: exports still falls in August, but at a lower rate than previously recorded while imports create the first recovery of two years now.
According to the numbers released by the General Administration of Customs in Beijing on Thursday, exports in August fell by 2.8% over the previous year, slowing the fall compared to -4.4% in July. The data also reveals higher than economists’ expectations, which indicated a contraction of 4%.
For much of the past 12 months, the volatility in China’s capital markets has captured investors’ attention. From a macroeconomic perspective, Morgan Stanley Asia Limited experts think that the following […]
The prospect of an economic meltdown in China has been sending tremors through global financial markets at the start of 2016. Yet such fears are overblown. While turmoil in Chinese equity and currency markets should not be taken lightly, the country continues to make encouraging headway on structural adjustments in its real economy. This mismatch between progress in economic rebalancing and setbacks in financial reforms must ultimately be resolved as China now enters a critical phase in its transition to a new growth model. But it does not spell imminent crisis.
