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China’s property demons stalk Vietnam

One may earn a high salary, but only real estate can build up wealth — for decades, that’s been the Chinese mentality. Real estate accounts for roughly 70% of China’s household wealth, and as much as 30% of its economy. But China Evergrande Group’s debt blowup, with the tumbling home prices and mortgage boycotts that followed, have sent the economy ...

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FedEx investors need a metric they don’t have

  Investors are eager to understand what’s happening at FedEx Corp’s Ground unit, which has been the company’s crown jewel of rising sales and profit for a couple of decades. That’s why almost a dozen Wall Street analysts and two big FedEx investors traveled to Las Vegas over the weekend to hear the view of contractors that make the last-mile ...

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Moderates still run the show in US politics

  Last week’s enactment of the 2022 budget-reconciliation bill, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act, is being treated by many analysts as a major turning point in Joe Biden’s presidency. As recently as last month, when it looked like Congress might not pass reconciliation legislation this year, conventional wisdom in Washington suggested that Biden was a failing president who ...

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