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Aug 24, 2015 · A fall in China’s stockmarket was hardly unlikely given its dizzying climb in the first half of the year. Its tumbling should be put in context: the Shanghai Composite is still up 43% on its...
- Recent Economic History
- U.S. Dependency on China
- A Possible Scenario
- The Bottom Line
From 1985 to 2015, China's GDP growth rate averaged almost 10% per year, with annual peaks of 13% and higher.Much of China’s rapid growth was tied to its 1970s economic reform. In 1978, after years of state control of all productive assets, China started introducing market principles to stimulate its economy. Over the following three decades, China...
While the U.S. and China haven't always seen eye to eye on diplomatic issues, particularly human rights and cybersecurity, the two counties have built a strong economic relationship, with significant trade, foreign direct investment, and debt financing. In 2014 China was the third-largest export market for U.S. goods, after Canada and Mexico, accou...
Given that China's economic turmoil at the time was followed by a downturn in U.S. and global stock markets, a pessimistic reader might have wondered if much more chaos could be expected with any continued deterioration of China's economy. While China held a great deal of Treasury debt, one worst-case scenario could have been the fearsome implicati...
China's economic activityin 2015 pointed to a country that was no longer the economic powerhouse it had been. The world's second-biggest economy would have to contend with the same pressures that other advanced economies have long dealt with. With its continued transition as a market economy after 2015, China would be more exposed to the ups and do...
Aug 25, 2015 · Global fears about China's economic slowdown are shaking stock markets around the world for a second week in a row. The wave of selling knocked the S&P 500 into correction mode for the first...
Sep 25, 2015 · On Sunday night, Aug. 23, a large drop in equities in Asia triggered a drop in index futures in Europe and the U.S. U.S. stock futures went down (7%) prior to the U.S. open. Panic buying of...
Aug 24, 2015 · World stocks and oil prices plunged Monday as a global selloff accelerated on fears about the health of China's huge economy. China stocks crashed and all Asian markets suffered major...
As of 30 August, the Chinese government arrested 197 people, including a Wang Xiaolu, a journalist at the "influential financial magazine Caijing", [52] and stock market officials, for "spreading rumours" about the market crash and 2015 Tianjin explosions. The crime of spreading rumours carries a three-year jail sentence after its introduction ...
Jul 8, 2015 · Updated Aug 26, 2015, 7:29 AM PDT. ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images. China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite index fell 1.2 percent on Wednesday, the fifth straight day of losses....
