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The article discusses the decrease in multinational business enterprises' finances from the 1990s through 2017, including decreases in foreign investments and return on equity (ROE) in multinational firms and the American fast food company McDonald's decrease in profits. An overview of multinational firms in China, including their exports and industrial output, is provided.

The article explores the systemic risks from Chinese housing firms in light of the financial crisis facing property developer Evergrande in 2021. According to Evergrande, an agreement was made with bondholders on a coupon payment on an onshore bond. One of the effects of the financial distress on markets around the world is the increase in yields on the dollar bonds of Chinese borrowers outside the sector. Also noted is the implication of the deleveraging campaign of the government.

The article focuses on the possible emergence of China as a high-income country in 2023. Among the challenges facing countries at the intermediate stage of development are declining returns to capital and investment needs in education. It mentions concern about the stock of human capital of China in light of the lower average of years of schooling of the adult population in 2020 compared with high-income countries. The significance of the Chinese investment in new human capital is cited.

The article discusses the financial risks to investors in China's capital and stock markets, including the risks surrounding investment returns. An overview of the bond market in China, including increases in the worth of bond insurance, is provided.

The article reports on the revamp of China's interest-rate system. Topics discussed include the introduction of Loan Prime Rate (LPR) for banks pricing corporate loans, the country's attempt to make lending rates more responsive to financial conditions, and the real interest rates for industrial firms.

The article looks at business challenges facing Chinese conglomerate corporation HNA Group in 2018. Following its growth since 2000, HNA faces a probable cash shortfall in the first quarter of 2018. The company has assured investors about its stability. Analysts noted the company' rising debts and falling returns on investments.

The article focuses on increases in stock prices in China's stock market in December 2014. It states that financial analysts at the broker Cinda Securities claim that a 20 percent increase in stock prices in two weeks was tied to 3,500 years of Chinese imperial history and suggested a bull market would be inevitable. It examines the impact that the People's Bank of China's reduction of interest rates and a crackdown on high-yield savings products has had on investments.

The article discusses the success of China's largest insurer, China Life, which announced on January 30, 2007, earnings up 50% for 2006. Since its initial public offering in New York and Hong Kong in 2003, its share price has quadrupled. China Life's market value is second in the world only to American International Group (AIG). China Group offers life insurance providing a guaranteed rate of return.

This article focuses on the results of a study that attempts to discover if Chinese or Americans are more likely to take business risks. Chinese are cautious and drink tea; Americans prefer coffee and readily take risks. So run the stereotypes. But what if those who study them as a prelude to doing business are being misled? A recent study by two American academics suggests they are. Given the two nations' differences, from traditional values to political systems, Christopher Hsee, at the University of Chicago, and Elke Weber, from Columbia University, expected to find Americans readier to take risks. But when they then asked the students to choose between a high-risk, high-return investment and a low-risk, lower-return one, they found the opposite: it was the Chinese who were happier with risk. Hsee and Weber suggest two possible reasons. Maybe in a collectivist society, as China's is people have a denser social network that would offer financial help if they need it. Or maybe those in an explosively developing economy, as China's has been recently, see more to gain in risk than do those in stable developed ones.

The article reports on a credit scheme in China. At least three lavishly furnished villas owned by some of the wealthiest residents of Fuan, a city in Fujian province near the southern Chinese coast, have been gutted by angry mobs. The owners of these and other villas fled or in jail. They are among scores of Fuan citizens accused of defrauding investors in an informal network of credit associations of tens of millions of dollars. These unregistered groups had grown in recent years to become the city's most popular financial institutions, sucking in far more money than the state-owned commercial banks. The associations had metamorphosed from small, close-knit groups into huge, risky structures linked to Fuan's underground gambling businesses and operated effectively as pyramid schemes. Their collapse in May was a colossal financial blow to many households in Fuan, which, together with its surrounding towns and villages, has a population of some 600,000. Credit associations known as biaohui have a centuries-old history in parts of eastern China, and helped fuel the growth of many enterprises across the strait in Taiwan. Unlike China's state-owned banks, which have rigidly managed interest rates and tend to shun small private businesses or individuals in need of funds, biaohui can offer credit when it's wanted, and for investors the possibility of a higher rate of return than bank deposits.