Evergrande’s crisis highlights China’s shortcomings

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A liquidity crunch in China would hurt global activity, from the sales of commodities to luxury goods

Part of what makes China’s financial industry daunting is its size. Banking assets have ballooned to about $50trn and they sit alongside a large, Byzantine system of shadow finance. Total credit extended to firms and households has soared from 178% ofa decade ago to 287% today. The industry suffers from opacity, a lack of market signals and the erratic application of rules. Property is part of the problem.

With an illiquid portfolio of property projects financed by $300bn of liabilities, 80% of them short-term, Evergrande has a huge liquidity mismatch. It has struggled to cope with new government rules designed to curb excessive borrowing in the real-estate industry but which may now have backfired.and Citigroup.

 

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At least Xi is doing something to avoid the same in the US.

Trương Tú Uyên :) :D

Evergrande's evidencia una profubda crisis economica y falta de liquidez a nivel global, la mas grande inmobiliaria de todo el mundo esta en quiebra tecnica y no creo se salve a menos que China no tenga mas alternativa que intervenir, sea quedandose con esta empresa

The global banks backed fully, or in-part, by Wall Street can lose their shirts for all I care. I want them to have their own personal 2008.

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