China’s Zhongzhi Enterprise Group headline-making revelations have investors uttering global markets’ least favorite word: contagion. A liquidity crisis at the troubled shadow bank comes just days after property development giant Country Garden missed coupon payments. Concerns surrounding Country Garden’s finances echo the China Evergrande Group default debacle of 2021. Yet trouble in China’s US$3 trillion shadow banking sector […]
China ‘contagion’ talk is last thing financial world needs
Shadow bank’s financial troubles are latest sign China’s property woes are rippling through the economy and imperilling global markets
