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Investors Have Cut China’s Internet Giants Down to Size
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Investors Have Cut China’s Internet Giants Down to Size

Dec. 30, 2023 11:01 pm ETHONG KONG—Investors in China’s biggest internet companies have suffered through a tumultuous 2021, a lackluster 2022 and a disappointing 2023. After a lousy three years for the once-hot sector, many investors are asking—where do things go from here? Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Investors Have Cut China’s Internet Giants Down to Size
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Investors Have Cut China’s Internet Giants Down to Size

Dec. 30, 2023 11:01 pm ETHONG KONG—Investors in China’s biggest internet companies have suffered through a tumultuous 2021, a lackluster 2022 and a disappointing 2023. After a lousy three years for the once-hot sector, many investors are asking—where do things go from here? Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
How China Manages Its Currency—and Why That Matters
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How China Manages Its Currency—and Why That Matters

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 8:31 am ETChina’s approach to its currency is a mix of bold ambition and fear of dollar strength.The yuan has lost 3% of its value against the greenback in 2023 and was doing even worse before the dollar slipped against most global currencies in November. The yuan traded around 16-year lows against the dollar in September. A dollar now buys around 7.11 yuan.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
How China Manages Its Currency—and Why That Matters
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How China Manages Its Currency—and Why That Matters

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 12:00 am ETChina’s approach to its currency is a mix of bold ambition and fear of dollar strength.The yuan has lost more than 3% of its value against the greenback this year and was doing even worse before the dollar slipped against most global currencies in November. The yuan traded around 16-year lows against the dollar in September. A dollar now buys around 7.15 yuan.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before
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China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before

Updated Dec. 26, 2023 12:04 am ETThe smartest strategy for investors in Chinese assets this year: Do something else.Sitting on cash was more profitable in 2023 than investing in Chinese shares, buying bonds sold by Chinese companies or betting on the performance of the yuan, the country’s currency. In many cases, even throwing away 5% or 10% of your cash would have been less costly.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before
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China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before

Dec. 25, 2023 11:00 pm ETThe smartest strategy for investors in Chinese assets this year: Do something else.Sitting on cash was more profitable in 2023 than investing in Chinese shares, buying bonds sold by Chinese companies or betting on the performance of the yuan, the country’s currency. In many cases, even throwing away 5% or 10% of your cash would have been less costly.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
The Newest Get Rich Quick Trade: Indian Stocks
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The Newest Get Rich Quick Trade: Indian Stocks

Dec. 22, 2023 12:39 am ETIndia’s booming stock market is attracting millions of individual investors hoping to get rich quick.The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex Index is around 16% higher this year and hit an all-time high this month. The surge encouraged investors to open more than 11 million new accounts with the National Stock Exchange of India in 2023 through the end of August, and has led to record flows into mutual funds that buy stocks. The most popular play: subscribing for shares in new listings, which sometimes surge in value during the first few days of trading.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
China’s Millionaires Are Worried. That’s a Problem for Wall Street.
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China’s Millionaires Are Worried. That’s a Problem for Wall Street.

Updated Dec. 18, 2023 12:15 am ETChina’s economic slowdown has become a big problem for banks that serve the rich. For years, banks including Citigroup, JPMorgan and UBS competed hard to win business from China’s giant pool of wealthy people. They hired thousands of relationship managers with the language skills and cultural know-how to gain the trust of mainland China’s moneyed class, and helped them buy shares in Hong Kong, real estate in the U.S. and expensive paintings from European collections.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
North Carolina’s Billion-Dollar Bet on an EV Outsider
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North Carolina’s Billion-Dollar Bet on an EV Outsider

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 12:13 am ETHAIPHONG, Vietnam—When electric-car startup VinFast Auto was looking to build a factory in the U.S., one state caught its attention in particular: North Carolina. For years, officials there had been trying to get an automobile manufacturer to set up shop in rural Chatham County. More than a billion dollars of incentives got them the Vietnamese upstart with huge ambitions but a limited record.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8