RE: gazprom25 Jul 2022 22:52
Saw this China not keeping its infrastructure spend up in Russia…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/07/25/blow-putin-china-abandons-investment-russia/
I don’t think it’s anything to do with covid though. I think is more about Chinese sub prime debt (Evergrande). They are really struggling now following lock downs to avoid contagion…
“……On Monday, Japanese banking giant Nomura said "an increasing number of developers have failed to repay their debt and continue their construction works" since the Evergrande crisis.
Also on Monday, it was reported that China was planning to start a real estate fund to support more than a dozen property developers, including Evergrande.
The fund could be worth up to 300bn yuan, according to reports.
Home sales in China have fallen for 11 consecutive months, official data shows. That is the longest slump since China created a private property market in the late 1990s.
Several Chinese developers have halted the construction of homes that had already been sold, because of concerns over cash flow.
In recent weeks, some home buyers have threatened to stop paying their mortgages until the work restarts.
More than 200 projects by at least 80 developers have been affected, according to the Shanghai-based E-house China Research and Development Institution.
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission has pledged to help local governments in "guaranteeing the delivery of homes," state media reported…..”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62287685
Defo moving up the agenda now the BBC are aware!
China trying to keep lid on it, some homeowners getting compensation following protests but they can’t just magic 300bn yn which imo is an understatement.
Biggest worry is default will affect lots of European and US banks. Well they just can help themselves can they! Crooks never flipping learn!
Usual caveats
Trek