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China’s recently announced five-year plan contains mostly what Xi Jinping has emphasized for some time now.

Some recent signs of improvement are tentative, to be sure, and easy to dismiss but still not to be ignored.

Beijing’s recently released five-year plan includes ambitious spending initiatives that seem certain to face budgetary constraints.

It is fair to say that the excitement about the upcoming quarterly announcement season is building, so we have a lot to look forward to in the upcoming weeks.

The world’s largest totalitarian regime, which prides itself on ’social engineering,‘ has hit a ’Great Wall' of human resistance and economic reality.

A sudden drop in EV sales in February means little in itself, but in context, it speaks to the economy’s fundamental troubles.

I want to assure investors that cooler heads may prevail, and the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, since the world needs the commodities that travel through it.

Slow growth and deflation are discouraging investment in China and, in the process, creating yet another drag on the economy’s pace of growth.

Recent less-depressing figures on the Chinese economy have elicited enthusiasm in some quarters. It is far from justified.

This is a good time to remind all investors that good stocks bounce.

A slow start for China’s digital yuan may not spell doom for Beijing’s monetary ambitions, but it does point to significant difficulties.

Investors should expect continued volatility until the energy situation stabilizes.

New energy shocks from the Middle East are accelerating structural changes inside China’s energy grid.

S&P Global Ratings has moved from a position of cautious optimism on China’s economy to a firm conclusion that things are going from bad to worse.

China’s recently announced five-year plan contains mostly what Xi Jinping has emphasized for some time now.

Some recent signs of improvement are tentative, to be sure, and easy to dismiss but still not to be ignored.

Beijing’s recently released five-year plan includes ambitious spending initiatives that seem certain to face budgetary constraints.

It is fair to say that the excitement about the upcoming quarterly announcement season is building, so we have a lot to look forward to in the upcoming weeks.

The world’s largest totalitarian regime, which prides itself on ’social engineering,‘ has hit a ’Great Wall' of human resistance and economic reality.

A sudden drop in EV sales in February means little in itself, but in context, it speaks to the economy’s fundamental troubles.

I want to assure investors that cooler heads may prevail, and the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, since the world needs the commodities that travel through it.

Slow growth and deflation are discouraging investment in China and, in the process, creating yet another drag on the economy’s pace of growth.

Recent less-depressing figures on the Chinese economy have elicited enthusiasm in some quarters. It is far from justified.

This is a good time to remind all investors that good stocks bounce.

A slow start for China’s digital yuan may not spell doom for Beijing’s monetary ambitions, but it does point to significant difficulties.

Investors should expect continued volatility until the energy situation stabilizes.

New energy shocks from the Middle East are accelerating structural changes inside China’s energy grid.

S&P Global Ratings has moved from a position of cautious optimism on China’s economy to a firm conclusion that things are going from bad to worse.