Bloomberg China is the new leader of shipping trade to the Americas. State-owned Cosco Shipping Holdings Co.’s $6.3 billion offer to buy Orient Overseas International Ltd. would create an entity that’s the biggest shipping company moving boxes to the North American continent from Asia, beating Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and France’s CMA CGM SA. The takeover, announced in Hong Kong, ...

Bloomberg Sunac China Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy hotels, land and projects from Dalian Wanda Group Co. for 63.2 billion yuan ($9.3 billion) in China’s largest property deal, as billionaire Chairman Sun Hongbin moves to take advantage of competitors shedding assets. Sunac will buy 76 hotels from Wanda through a unit and will purchase a 91 percent stake of 13 ...

Bloomberg China’s producer price gains held up, signaling that demand in the world’s second-largest economy is maintaining pace for now, even in the face of regulatory curbs. The producer price index rose 5.5 percent in June from a year earlier, in line with the estimate in a Bloomberg survey as well as the reading in May. The consumer price index ...