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Yuan Strength Seen as Message to Obama as Talks Loom: Currencies – Bloomberg
Yuan Strength Seen as Message to Obama as Talks Loom: Currencies – Bloomberg. China is using the yuan to make the case that it’s a responsible economic powerhouse before President Xi Jinping meets Barack Obama in Beijing tomorrow. The People’s Bank of China yesterday raised its yuan reference rate by the most since 2010. In doing so, strategists say it’s distancing itself […]
‘China to avoid dangerous maritime route thanks to gas deal with Russia’ — RT Op-Edge
‘China to avoid dangerous maritime route thanks to gas deal with Russia’ — RT Op-Edge. Most of China’s energy resources are imported via the Pacific, and is threatened by the US military presence. The gas deal with Russia allows China to minimize the risks, China-based journalist Brendan O’Reilly told RT. Russia and China have agreed […]
Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar & Canada | Zero Hedge
Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar & Canada | Zero Hedge. The march of global de-dollarization continues. In the last few days, China has signed direct currency agreements with Canada becoming North America’s first offshore RMB hub, which CBC reports analysts suggest “could double maybe even triple the level of Canadian trade between Canada and China,” […]
Saxobank CIO Warns We’re About To See A Full-Scale Currency War | Zero Hedge
Saxobank CIO Warns We’re About To See A Full-Scale Currency War | Zero Hedge. There’s increasing risk we’ll soon see a “significant paradigm shift” from China in its attitude to the strength of its currency, warns Saxobank CIO and Chief Economist Steen Jakobsen. He says we’re about to see a full-scale currency war, notably between […]
Obama urges China to be partner in ensuring world order | Reuters
Obama urges China to be partner in ensuring world order | Reuters. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday a successful China was in the interests of the United States and the world but Beijing had to be a partner in underwriting international order, and not undermine it. Speaking to growing concerns among U.S. and other companies […]
Russia, China Sign Second Mega-Gas Deal: Beijing Becomes Largest Buyer Of Russian Gas | Zero Hedge
Russia, China Sign Second Mega-Gas Deal: Beijing Becomes Largest Buyer Of Russian Gas | Zero Hedge. As we previewed on Friday, when we reported that “Russia Nears Completion Of Second “Holy Grail” Gas Deal With China“, moments ago during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum taking place this weekend in Beijing, Russia and China signed 17 […]
US-China Relations: The Danger of Strategic Misjudgment | The Diplomat
US-China Relations: The Danger of Strategic Misjudgment | The Diplomat. President Obama will head to Beijing in the coming days to attend the annual APEC summit on November 10 and 11. But perhaps the more important event on his agenda is the whole day meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 12. Compared to […]
China Awards $8.2 Billion RQFII Quota to Canada in Harper Visit – Bloomberg
China Awards $8.2 Billion RQFII Quota to Canada in Harper Visit – Bloomberg. China gave a 50 billion yuan ($8.2 billion) quota to Canada under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program as Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Beijing and signed deals to boost economic ties. The two sides signed deals worth almost C$2.5 billion […]
Russia Nears Completion Of Second “Holy Grail” Gas Deal With China | Zero Hedge
Russia Nears Completion Of Second "Holy Grail" Gas Deal With China | Zero Hedge. Six months ago, something few had expected would take place in 2014, or even in the coming years, happened: under Western pressure and out of a desire to diversify away from an increasingly hostile European market, Russia signed the so-called “Holy […]
Chris Hamilton: China Likely Bought 10,000 tons of Gold…and if They Did, Here’s Why – Biderman’s Money Blog
Chris Hamilton: China Likely Bought 10,000 tons of Gold…and if They Did, Here’s Why – Biderman's Money Blog. Gold has long represented the primary means of rebalancing trade surplus / deficits between nations. As a nation ran a trade surplus with another, the exporter ended up with an excess of the importer nations currency. The […]
Oil Price Collapse Ricochets Around the World, Hits US Drillers, the Ruble … and Russia’s Probability of Default | Wolf Street
Oil Price Collapse Ricochets Around the World, Hits US Drillers, the Ruble … and Russia’s Probability of Default | Wolf Street. As soon as word spread that Saudi Arabia’s Aramco cut prices, rather than production, for its US customers – though it raised prices for Asian and European customers – the price of WTI swooned […]
Putin Signs Secret Pact to Crush NATO « The Burning Platform
Putin Signs Secret Pact to Crush NATO « The Burning Platform. Back on September 11 and 12, there was a summit meeting in a city that involved an organization that most Americans have never heard of. Mainstream media coverage was all but nonexistent. The place was Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, a country few Westerners […]
Three International Water Conflicts to Watch – Geopoliticalmonitor.com
Three International Water Conflicts to Watch – Geopoliticalmonitor.com. China-India: The Brahmaputra River The Brahmaputra River is a 2,900 km river that originates in Tibet and flows through India’s Arunachal Pradesh state before merging with the Ganges and draining into the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. It is considered an important resource in all three countries […]
China’s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests – Bloomberg
China’s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests – Bloomberg. The record surge in Chinese corn output is over, and Dong Yushan doesn’t have to look much farther than his dusty fields in Henan province to see why. A lack of rain from May to August turned into the worst drought the 67-year-old farmer ever saw. […]
How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed | Zero Hedge
How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed | Zero Hedge. Two years ago, in hushed tones at first, then ever louder, the financial world began discussing that which shall never be discussed in polite company – the end of the system that according to many has framed and facilitated the US Dollar’s reserve currency […]
