Real estate crisis in China: the risk of contagion

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DECRYPTION – Housing and construction, engines of the world’s second largest economy, are coughing. The IMF warns of the global effects.

From our correspondent in Asia

Evergrande is still breathing, despite its 260 billion euros in debt. The Chinese real estate developer on the verge of bankruptcy has found some color on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the eve of the Lunar New Year, following the arrival in the cockpit of a seasoned public sector executive.

The entry into the board of directors of the Shenzhen group of Liang Senlin, from one of China’s main public asset managers, temporarily reassured the markets, finally seeing it as a sign of Beijing’s desire to save the giant in peril, to prevent a perilous domino effect threatening to overtake the whole of the second largest economy on the planet, and by extension global growth.

Evergrande will present a rescue plan within six months, billionaire bulimic Xu Jiayin’s group said on January 26, while asking “more time” to its creditors. This discreet takeover of the over-indebted giant, just like the new drop…

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