Econintersect: China’s tightening monetary policies have started to affect home prices. For the first time in a year home prices fell month-over-month in September. The decline was a miniscule 0.03% decline from August. That is an annualized rate of 0.4%… more »

Today (Tuesday, May 17) is the first day of Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani's visit to China. The visit starts in Shanghai from which city the PM will travel to Suzhou on China's fastest and most modern train service. In Suzhou he will address the first conference of World Cultural Forum Tuesday afternoon. The conference is being held under the theme ‘Dialogue and Cooperation for World Harmony and Common Development’. The visit will continue through the week, ending on Friday. The visit will be the third direct contact between the top leaders of the two countries in seventeen months. more »

For the week ending April 8, 2011, far east markets did quite well, European markets had more modest results and the Americas' had a relatively poor week. more »

The thirty global stock indexes monitored by GEI continued to rally from the sell-off early in March which was punctuated by Libyan rebellion and the Japanese earthquake / tsunami tragedy. The political and geologically produced problems remain but the markets have decided these events will not be a problem for stocks. more »

Sales of existing properties in Shanghai, mainly houses, may jump about 70 percent in March from February, said Century 21 China Real Estate. more »