Finance & Economics

CRISIS

China Patiently Holds US Bonds

China's staunch holding of US bonds has kept the US economy from unraveling significantly more. But will it continue to do so?

Ouyang Xiaohong | 2008-10-17

SWF

CIC: We'll Get Our Money Out of Reserve Primary

China's sovereign wealth fund, the CIC, has refuted media claims that it has billions of dollars frozen in a US money-market fund.

Liu Peng, Rui Bingyou | 2008-10-16

OLYMPIC AFTERMATH

Beijing's Post-Olympic Blues

In playing host to the Olympic Games, Beijing has suffered harsh blows to its economy.

Zhang Xiangdong | 2008-10-15

FINANCIAL CRISIS

China Puts Financial Crisis Warning Network to the...

Chinese regulators are putting to test a financial crisis early warning network that was drafted as early as 2005.

Cheng Zhiyun, Zhang Yong and Ouyang Xiaohong | 2008-10-15

FOREX

China Poised to Move Investment Targets to Europe

Chinese officials seem poised to diversify a fraction of the country's heavily US-dollar-denominated foreign exchange reserves by investing in Europe.

Yuan Zhaohui | 2008-10-09

CREDIT CRUNCH

China Joins Central Banks Elsewhere in Cutting Rat...

China joins central banks elsewhere in a coordinated interest rate cuts on Wednesday to surf through the wave of global credit crunch.

Ren Yujie | 2008-10-09

GOVERNMENT SPENDING

Shrinking Coffers Challenge Chinese Finance Minist...

Though central government agencies have struggled to spend their budgets, this summer saw shrinking growth in state revenues that could herald the end of an era of surpluses.

Xi Si | 2008-10-08