Evergrande Investors on Hold After Payment Deadline Passes

Evergrande Investors on Hold After Payment Deadline Passes
Residential buildings under construction are seen at a project developed by Evergrande Group, in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on Sept. 23, 2021. Aly Song/Reuters
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SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI—China’s Evergrande Group has left global investors guessing over whether it will make a key interest payment, adding to fears that Beijing will let overseas bondholders swallow large losses as a liquidity crisis deepens for the world’s most indebted property company.

Evergrande owes $305 billion, has run short of cash, and investors are worried a collapse could pose systemic risks to the Chinese regime’s financial system and reverberate around the world.