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Thanks to its links to China, Hong Kong punches above its weight in international commerce Hong Kong's largest trading partners (2005) Rest of world 27.5% Singapore 4% Taiwan 4.8% Japan 8.2% U.S. 10.5% China 45% Hong Kong's GDP growth rate (2001-06) * Projected [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Initial publc offerings (2006) Stock exchange Capital raised ($ millions) Total IPOs Hong Kong 41133 54 London 40191 46 New York 28724 67 NASDAQ 17257 1387 Euronext...
...question is: If America's growth doesn't pick up significantly, can other countries make up the shortfall? That question has taken on fresh urgency as the once hot U.S. housing market has cooled, putting a chill on the rest of the domestic economy. U.S. GDP growth dropped to 2% in the third quarter, less than half the blistering 5.6% rate of the first three months of 2006. The prospect of a continuing slowdown has sent shivers of concern from Bangkok to Bordeaux...
...forecasts for the U.S. predict weaker growth in 2007 but not the ultimate test of full-blown recession. Indeed, judging by some of the latest data that shows rising U.S. wages and exports, the worst may already be over. The International Monetary Fund recently increased its prediction for global GDP growth in 2007 to 4.9% from 4.7%. If that turns out to be correct, this year will be the fourth in a row with an economic expansion rate above or close to 5%, the best performance since the early 1970s. China continues to race ahead at the astonishing pace...
...Western Europe no longer dominates to the degree it once did. China is close to snatching the No. 3 slot on the list of the world's biggest economies away from Germany, while India and South Korea are set to join the top 10 within a decade. India's GDP has expanded by a total of $350 billion over the past six years, an amount equivalent to the entire economy of the Netherlands in 2000. Once moribund countries such as Argentina and Russia are booming, too. Indeed, developing economies are doing much of the heavy lifting today. According...
...individuals and institutions holding real estate have been able to use their appreciating properties as collateral in order to take on larger debts, thereby increasing their consumption and driving up asset prices even more. As a result, asset prices have been ballooning at rates far in excess of nominal GDP growth. I believe we're in the midst of the greatest asset bubble ever...