Private equity firm Boyu Capital has experienced the pressure that the delay in the long-awaited initial public offering of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has caused.
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Corporate Travel Management to buy majority stake in Westminster Travel
Australia-based Corporate Travel Management (CTM) announced that it is seeking to raise AUD53 million (USD49.6 million) to buy a 75.1% stake in travel service provider Westminster Travel.
Bidders in negotiations to add more partners to AIG's ILFC buyout - sources
Sources who were familiar with the proceedings said the bidding group who planned to buy the aircraft-leasing unit of American International Group Inc would be welcoming Chinese financier Xiao Jianhua and Taiwanese tycoon Richard Tsai as its additional partners.
China's bonds sell at 50-year high yield as borrowing costs increase
China's recent government CNY20 billion or USD3.3 billion bond sale recorded a 5.3% yield, which was the highest obtained by the mainland since selling debt since 2009.
Daimler to ink strategic cooperation deal with BAIC
Germany-based international car producer Daimler announced a new strategic cooperation agreement with China-based partner automobile seller BAIC Motor that would be signed by both parties on Tuesday.
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Although China's support to overhaul the current system of registration-based stock issuance, analysts said it might take a long time for the new system to be adopted.
Chinese institutional investors' outbound investment in real estate will continue to increase next year as buying opportunities emerge in the United States and Europe and international financial institutions dispose of their property assets.
Investors remain inclined to take markets higher in the absence of anything that would suggest equities should fall. The market seems to have hit a stage where strong data helps and weak data affirms the Fed's intentions to keep policy accommodative, which also helps stocks.
Top leaders of the Chinese government released its plans to make major reforms in the economy and social systems, and vowed that such reforms would make decisive results by 2020.
Peer-to-peer financial lending platform Ppdai received a significant investment worth USD35 million from the financial arm of Alibaba Group, said sources who were familiar with the transaction.
Lone Pine Capital increased its holdings in online companies by buying shares in China-based search engine Baidu Inc and ecommerce firm Amazon.com Inc. The fund also bought shares in MasterCard Inc.
Shunfeng Photovoltaic International said provisional liquidators of Suntech Power Holdings Co had not approved its planned acquisition of Wuxi Suntech, the main unit of Suntech which went into bankruptcy.
Top Chinese company China Harbor Engineering Company will be building two hotels and a golf course in Sri Lanka worth USD500 million. Previously, the company constructed an international airport which was opened this year.
Analysts warned that unless the state of China address the USD1.6 trillion debt incurred by its municipalities via local government financing vehicles, interest rates would skyrocket.
