Umesh Desai

Chinese developers seek alternative financing as investors grow wary

November 4, 2021 at 1:33 a.m.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's property developers are turning to commercial mortgage-backed securities and looking at other alternative financing as creditors grow more discriminating in the face of rising concerns...

Chinese developers seek alternative financing as investors grow wary

December 23, 2018 at 11:09 p.m.

China’s $12 trillion corporate debt pushes up refunding costs, drives mergers

November 4, 2021 at 1:14 a.m.

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's corporate debt has hit record levels and is likely to accelerate a wave of domestic restructuring and trigger more defaults, as credit repayment problems rise....

China’s $12 trillion corporate debt pushes up refunding costs, drives mergers

December 23, 2018 at 10:12 p.m.

China property developers pull down shutters, hoard cash

August 24, 2021 at 8:22 p.m.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's biggest property developers are sitting on $25 billion in cash as they prepare for a possible credit crunch and another round of crackdowns on real...

Analysis: Asian stress points unveiled as Fed tapering looms

August 24, 2021 at 6:06 p.m.

Singapore (Reuters) - The panic that rippled through Asia's markets in May and June might just be a prelude to a more serious capital flight when the U.S. Federal Reserve...

Analysis: Asia’s ticking time bonds; Time to cut and run?

August 24, 2021 at 4:43 p.m.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Efforts to make the global financial system safer could be making Asia more - not less - vulnerable to any credit market shocks, leaving bond traders...

China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals

August 24, 2021 at 3:22 p.m.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from...

The ASEAN bid: policy risk to the fore

August 24, 2021 at 2:34 p.m.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors are becoming increasingly picky about which bonds and stocks they buy in Southeast Asia's fast-growing economies as the risk of policy bungling makes them more discerning....

Analysis: Asia’s junk bond rally near exhaustion

August 24, 2021 at 2:40 a.m.

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Yield-chasing investors, whose hunger for income powered a long rally in Asian junk-rated bonds, are finally feeling the first symptoms of indigestion after a year-long binge....

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