Daniel Inman

Recent Articles by Daniel Inman

November 3, 2009

China's Investment Boom to Continue, Nomura Says

It is one year since China launched its Rmb4 trillion ($585 billion) stimulus package, the country's attempt to stave off the effects of the financial crisis by ...

October 28, 2009

CIC Funds Canadian Company's Mongolia Plans

Toronto-listed SouthGobi Energy Resources yesterday announced that China Investment Corporation (CIC) has agreed to provide a $500 million loan to finance the ...

September 9, 2009

Chinese Online Gamer Readies $800M IPO

Shanda Games is currently pre-marketing an initial public offering of American depositary receipts (ADRs) that is expected to raise approximately $800 million, ...

August 10, 2009

$1.5 Billion IPO for Indian Hydropower Company

Indian hydropower company NHPC launched a Rs60 billion ($1.25 billion) IPO on Friday. By the end of the first day of bookbuilding, the institutional tranche was six ...

July 6, 2009

China's Sovereign Wealth Fund Makes Big Bet in Canada

Canadian mining and processing company Teck Resources on Friday announced that it will sell a 17.2% stake to China Investment Corporation (CIC) via a private ...

June 24, 2009

Chinese Power Company Makes $3.4 Billion Bet on Solar Energy

Hong Kong-listed Chinese power company GCL-Poly Energy Holdings yesterday announced that it will pay HK$26 billion ($3.4 billion) to acquire Jiangsu Zhongneng PV ...

June 19, 2009

China: Healthier People, Healthier Economy

Once upon a time, when China was unambiguously a communist country, its healthcare system was a success. In the three decades following the establishment of the ...

June 16, 2009

Shanghai Property Market HIts Hard Times

In recent years, the developers of Shanghai's top-notch office blocks faced agreeable problems: how to find the next good plot of land and how high to build on it. The...

June 14, 2009

Ping An to invest in Shenzhen Development Bank

Ping An Insurance announced on Friday that it is to become a strategic investor in Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB). The move will help the insurer achieve its goal of ...

May 22, 2009

Worries Grow about China's Loan Cascade

This year, China's banks have opened the floodgates of credit: between January and the end of April, $757 billion worth of new loans were dished out, equivalent to 17%...