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Ray Dalio founded the Bridgewater hedge fund.Eoin Noonan/Web Summit/Getty Images Ray Dalio has praised China's "common prosperity" equality
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Author: Kerry Brown, King’s College London In 2021 China was, and in 2022 again will be, dominated by the domestic economy, relations with the
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By John Richardson Following on from my post on Wednesday, please study the quite remarkable chart below, and, if you are not making Common
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By John Richardson THERE IS ONLY one slight problem with the argument that developing world demand is behind the boom in petrochemicals demand over
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By John Richardson THE OMICRON outbreak is piling further pressure on already extremely stressed supply chains as Europe struggles to cope with the
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By John Richardson IT IS A FANTASTIC song from a great band. Another One Bites the Dust by Queen underlines the versatility of a band that could not
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By John Richardson ONCE AGAIN, PLEASE don’t say I didn’t warn you. The switch from inflation to disinflation or deflation is already well
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Just as 2021 was drawing to a close, Cathay Capital announced the launch of the Cathay Consumer Co-Creation Fund. The joint fund — established in
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By John Richardson LET’S PUT THIS in perspective. Yes, as the chart below indicates, China’s polypropylene (PP) demand growth in 2021 is in line
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What Happened: Evergrande Group shares plummeted by 20 percent on Monday, reaching a record low, according to the BBC. A statement issued over the
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By John Richardson WE NOW HAVE enough data to make some firm conclusions about what the Chinese polyethylene (PE) market will have looked like in
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By John Richardson WE NOW HAVE enough data to make some firm conclusions about what the Chinese polyethylene (PE) market will have looked like in
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By John Richardson WE ALL NEED TO ASK ourselves whether the global patterns in polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) pricing and margins that we
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By John Richardson WE ALL NEED TO ASK ourselves whether the global patterns in polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) pricing and margins that we
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Update published on November 22, 2021 There’s a fire sale going on in China. Evergrande, the world’s most indebted developer, is unloading what