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 …