Investment Blog

Eleven Democratic and Republican U.S. Congress members have asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to stop the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) to Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group (CCEG), a group consisting of China-based investors. The CHX is a small stock exchange… Read More »Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group’s Recent Bid to Acquire the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX)

Canada exceeded the United States (U.S.) as the top North American supplier of pork to China, for the first time in nearly two decades. In the first quarter of 2017, Canada exported 93,000 metric tonnes (MT) of pork into China, compared to 87,500 MT from… Read More »Canada Exceeds U.S. as North America’s top Supplier of Pork Products to China

Real estate, culture, internet and finance giant Dalian Wanda Group announced its plan to sell its hotels and tourism projects to Sunac China for USD$9.3 billion. The company is considered to be the world’s largest commercial property investor, owning a total of 32.33 million square… Read More »Dalian Wanda Group sells off USD$9.3 billion in Commercial Real Estate

The Trudeau government’s recent decision to approve the China-based Hytera Project Corporation’s bid to acquire Norsat International Inc. has been challenged by the U.S-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The Commission’s Michael Wessel told the Globe and Mail that the Canadian government is jeopardizing US-national-security… Read More »Chinese investment in High Tech and Controversial bid to acquire Canada’s Norsat

Chinese outbound global foreign direct investment (FDI) reached record high in 2016, exceeding USD$200 billion, according to MERICS and the Rhodium Group. Of this total, over USD$33 billion has targeted the commercial and residential real estate sectors, representing a 53% increase from 2015. Unlike any… Read More »Chinese investment in Real Estate

On June 8 2017, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr expressed that Canada is open to Chinese investment in its oil sands sector, after foreign investment declined by $22.5 billion in the last year alone.  This comes at a time both countries are engaging in exploratory… Read More »Chinese investment in the Canadian Oil and Gas sector

According to a release by the United States Department of Commerce, the United States and China have reached an agreement on trade in such areas as American exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and beef to China. Energy, investment, trade, and financial services were among… Read More »China, US Trade Deal on LNG Trade, Beef

Canada’s largest aircraft manufacturer, Bombardier, announced Thursday that it held talks with Chinese state-owned Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (Comac) about a possible investment into the Montréal-based company. This announcement comes two weeks after Comac successfully tested its C919 plane, which could carry 156 to… Read More »New Potential Investment into Bombardier

Africa, Asia, and Europe are one step closer to being linked with China under the latter’s massive infrastructure plans, with many of the continents’ leaders gathering last weekend in Beijing for a forum on the “One Belt, One Road” initiative. One Belt, One Road countries were promised… Read More »China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative Forum

Services and consumption, and not investment, will drive new China’s economy going forward, and Canadian firms will need to respond to this shift, according to a report, Shifting Chinese Demand: New Opportunities for Canadian Companies, by the Conference Board of Canada for HSBC Bank Canada. While… Read More »As Chinese Economy Shifts, Canadian Firms Need to Capitalize