China's Bid to Tame Economy Begins a Real Estate Bust
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SHENZHEN, China -- Sweating in the bright afternoon sun, the men and women stand on the sides of the roads like homeless people clutching wrinkled cardboard signs. Waving the boards, the real estate agents call out to cars zooming by.
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Regulators are trying to punish Wall Street for mortgage finance practices that expanded home ownership and spread risk among a host of new players Â but also may have duped borrowers and investors who supplied cash to fuel a housing boom that's turned bust.
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Hong Kong property firm Chinese Estates Holdings Ltd.  is in talks with investors on a possible buyout of the firm, valued at more than US$4 billion, sending its shares up as much as 30 percent to a record high.
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Business & money: Change of emphasis to property development provokes outrage.
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BEIJING -- Chinese stocks plunged Monday following government efforts to cool a market boom, recording their biggest one-day drop since a late February drop that triggered a global market sell-off.
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Pressure mounted on China to allow its currency to float freely as the IMF's top official urged Chinese authorities to make the move now, while their economy is booming.
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The Chinese government is imposing more curbs on foreigners buying Beijing property, reports say.
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Yesterday's rout in global stock markets, initially triggered by a market panic in China, is likely causing millions of US investors to evaluate what they should do in response: run, dig in, or start buying.
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The Hong Kong Housing Authority said bankers will devise a new plan to sell a record $2.7 billion real estate investment trust through an initial public offering after a legal challenge forced the postponement of the listing.
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China&#39;s spending on fixed assets such  as roads and power plants accelerated in the first five months  of the year, prompting predictions of imminent monetary  tightening to slow the world&#39;s fourth-largest economy.
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The Chinese government orders some prices to be frozen as it battles to contain the country's inflation.
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China increases its interest rates for the first time since 1995, a move widely seen as a further attempt to prevent its economy from over-heating.
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China's banks will suffer a rise in  non-performing assets due to the U.S subprime crisis and  domestic credit tightening, a senior economist said in remarks  published on Tuesday amid mounting concern about the industry.
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A dramatic sell-off that has sent share prices here plummeting more than 10 percent over the past two days is raising fears that Chinaâs spectacular stock market boom may be coming to an end.
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A pullback in commercial property lending has raised questions about whether a recent surge in real estate investment trust buyouts signaled a peak for private equity funds.
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A financial portal is born in China.
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China's already record-high housing prices jumped 10.5 percent in December despite authorities' efforts to cool the boom, but the growth rate slowed slightly, the government said Thursday.