China’s Deceptive Banking ‘Recovery’ (Nikkei Asian Review)

These days in China, when banks are in no mood to dole out cash, the country’s old-economy enterprises start falling like a house of cards. Many analysts are now pointing out that earnings at banks have been stabilizing not so much due to improving debt fundamentals but rather because of cost cuts, asset disposal and asset growth off the balance sheets. READ MORE

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