Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "CreditSights"


25 mentions found


BEIJING (AP) — Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country's booming but crowded market for electric cars. The tech company will start taking orders for the SU7, a sporty four-door sedan, following a launch event with founder Lei Jun in Beijing on Thursday evening. Government subsides have helped make China the world's largest market for electric vehicles, and a bevy of new makers are locked in fierce competition. "I believe that one day, Xiaomi EVs will be a familiar sight on roads around the world,” he was quoted as saying in a company news release. “China is determined to dominate the future of the auto market, including by using unfair practices,” President Joe Biden said when the U.S. investigation was announced.
Persons: , Lei Jun, Lei, Xiaomi, Le, , automaking, , ” Le, Joe Biden, I’m Organizations: BEIJING, Analysts, Fitch, Sino, Insights, EU, U.S, Trade Organization, U.S . Defense Department, U.S . Locations: China, Beijing, American, U.S
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailProspects for Chinese offshore property bonds 'not great': AnalystZerlina Zeng, senior credit analyst at CreditSights, explains why "it's very hard to identify what assets are available for offshore bondholders."
Persons: Zerlina Zeng
Shadow banks in China operate by pooling household and corporate savings to offer loans to invest in real estate, stocks, bonds, and commodities. Companies such as Zhongzhi have often financed many large Chinese property developers. Hong Kong listed shares of property firms including Logan Group, China Vanke, Sunac and Longfor Group dropped between 2% and 3.6%. More pain for shadow banks? China's government has in the last few years tried to limit the rapid growth of non-bank debt issued by shadow banks.
Persons: Zhongzhi, Commerzbank, Zerlina Zeng, CNBC's Organizations: Zhongzhi Enterprise, Reuters, Beijing, CSI, Logan Group, Longfor, CreditSights Locations: HANGZHOU, CHINA, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, Hong Kong
The bad news prompted some bond investors to question whether Bayer should sweeten the terms of the deal or outright pull it, one of the sources said. The drug-to-pesticides group priced the investment grade bond on Thursday last week, with the deal closing on Tuesday. Bayer priced bonds with maturities between three to 30 years. It was the 10th largest investment grade bond deal by an industrial company this year and attracted more than $22 billion in orders, according to Informa Global Markets. The events were "not enough to trigger a material adverse change clause in bond documents for investors to ask to be paid back," said CreditSights' Brady.
Persons: Wolfgang Rattay, Bayer, Andrew Brady, CreditSights, JP Morgan, Wells, Brady, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Ludwig Burger, Mike Erman, Paritosh Bansal, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Bayer AG, REUTERS, Bayer, Nomura Holdings, Informa Global Markets, Citigroup, Nikko Securities America, RIC, Thomson Locations: Leverkusen, Germany, Seattle
The company logo of Chinese developer Country Garden is displayed at a news conference in Hong Kong, China March 20, 2018. Country Garden, which has almost $11 billion of offshore bonds, declined to comment. The timeline for the company's debt restructuring plan has not been reported before. CreditSights said in a Nov. 2 research note that Country Garden had "formally defaulted" on its offshore bonds due to the missed payment. Sunac China Holdings Ltd (1918.HK) in October became the first to complete the debt revamp scheme for its $9 billion offshore debt after winning approval from creditors and courts.
Persons: Bobby Yip, Ping, CreditSights, CICC, Houlihan Lokey, Sidley Austin, Houlihan, China Evergrande, Hui Ka Yan, Xie Yu, Clare Jim, Sumeet Chatterjee, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Insurance Group, Ping An, Sunac China Holdings Ltd, HK, Thomson Locations: Hong Kong, China, HONG KONG, HK, Beijing
But they are going only as far as the safest bets in the junk category, bonds rated BB and B. Junk bond spreads, the additional interest rate investors demand over safe Treasury bonds, tightened sharply. The spreads of those rated BB and B, or the higher rungs of junk, had tightened 47-52 basis points last week, according to Informa Global Markets data. Four junk bond issuers – Bombardier (BBDb.TO), Venture Global LNG, Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete and InfraBuild Australia - announced bond offerings on Monday. The spotty access to bond markets does not bode well for poorly rated companies.
Persons: Rick Wilking, , Edward Marrinan, Peter Knapp, Winnie Cisar, bode, Morgan Stanley, Moody's, Manuel Hayes, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Paritosh Bansal, Andrea Ricci Organizations: REUTERS, Federal, Nikko Securities Americas, Investors, JPMorgan, Informa, CCC, Bombardier, Venture Global LNG, , London, Insight Investment, Barclays, Thomson Locations: Westminster , Colorado, Smyrna, Australia
A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. Investors are playing close attention to this week's quarterly refunding announcement as a sharp jump in long-term Treasury yields has been partly attributed to concerns about the U.S. fiscal deficit. So far this year, the Treasury has issued about $1.6 trillion of additional bills and roughly $1.04 trillion in longer-term debt. The Treasury is also likely to announce a buyback program for a possible launch in January, aimed at improving bond market liquidity, analysts said. The projected increase in longer-term deficits in the coming years, however, will keep Treasury raising auction sizes, analysts said.
Persons: Kevin Lamarque, Guneet Dhingra, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley's Dhingra, Tom Simons, Zachary Griffiths, Gertrude Chavez, Dreyfuss, Megan Davies, Jamie Freed Organizations: Department of, U.S . Treasury, REUTERS, TD Securities, Treasury, Jefferies, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, New York, Charlotte , North Carolina
China's troubled property sector to face more debt defaults
  + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Xie Yu | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
HONG KONG, Oct 20 (Reuters) - More debt defaults are likely to emerge in China's property sector as troubled developers struggle with a weak home sales outlook, while fund raising remains challenging, according to credit analysts. Counting October, there is a total of $60.5 billion worth of Chinese property bonds due in the next 6 months, with offshore bonds taking up at least one third of it, according to Dealogic data. The company said it was also prepared to formulate a reasonable debt repayment plan if it fails to repay bonds as they are due. Ricky Tsang, an analyst with S&P Global Ratings, said apart from the weak cash flow from home sales, fund raising for developers, particularly the private ones, remains tight. Reporting by Xie Yu in Hong Kong, Editing by Raju GopalakrishnanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Ting Meng, Ricky Tsang, Tsang, Xie Yu, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: HK, Ocean Group, Hong Kong Exchange, Dalian Wanda Group, Bloomberg, ANZ Bank China, Developers, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, China, State, HK, Hong Kong
[1/5] A view of the residential apartments in Country Garden's Forest City development in Johor Bahru, Malaysia August 16, 2023. The group hired PJT Partners (PJT.N) as financial adviser to lead discussions with Country Garden, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Ratings agency Moody's said on Thursday it could downgrade Country Garden's (2007.HK) 'corporate family rating' if the recovery prospects for its creditors weaken further. Moody's said Country Garden's senior unsecured rating of C was already at the lowest of its rating scale. Country Garden and Frasers did not immediately respond for a request for comment on that sale.
Persons: Edgar Su, PJT, Moody's, Frasers, Houlihan Lokey, Sidley Austin, Yeung Kwok Keung, Yang Huiyan, Yeung, Yang, Cao Jianglin, Garden's, China Evergrande, Scott Murdoch, Xie Yu, Clare Jim, Anousha Sakoui, Liz Lee, Lewis Jackson, Kim Coghill, Christopher Cushing, Jamie Freed, Lincoln, Miral Fahmy, Jane Merriman Organizations: REUTERS, HK, PJT Partners, Garden's, Australian Financial, Reuters, China International Capital Corporation, Finance, HSBC, China National Agricultural Development, SOE, Thomson Locations: Garden's, City, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, China HONG KONG, Garden's Australian, Melbourne, China, Shunde, Guangdong province, Sydney, Hong Kong, London, Beijing, Sydndey
[1/2] A worker looks on at a construction site of residential buildings by Chinese developer Country Garden, in Beijing, China August 11, 2023. Non-payment would trigger cross defaults in other Country Garden bonds as is standard in bond contracts. Country Garden reiterated on Wednesday that it expects to be unable to meet all of its offshore debt obligations and hopes to seek a "holistic" solution to its difficulties. Shares in Country Garden have lost some 70% of their value this year but gained some ground on Wednesday, rising 2.7%. "I think Country Garden offshore US dollar bond pricing speaks for itself as to the current expectations," said Real Estate Foresight co-founder Robert Ciemniak who publishes on Smartkarma.
Persons: Tingshu Wang, Cedric Rimaud, Garden's, China Evergrande, Robert Ciemniak, Clare Jim, Xie Yu, Scott Murdoch, Anne Marie Roantree, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, HK, Foresight, Data, JPMorgan, Mainland Properties, Thomson Locations: Beijing, China, HONG KONG, U.S, Hang, Hong Kong
[1/2] A worker looks on at a construction site of residential buildings by Chinese developer Country Garden, in Beijing, China August 11, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsHONG KONG, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The grace period for Chinese property developer Country Garden Holding's (2007.HK) $15 million coupon payment has expired with no word that the money has been paid. Country Garden did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Country Garden has also missed other offshore payments in the past few weeks, though those payments still have not seen their 30-day grace periods lapse. A default would open the way for Country Garden's offshore creditors to begin negotiations with the firm's financial advisors.
Persons: Tingshu Wang, Clare Jim, Scott Murdoch, Xie Yu, Sonali Paul, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, HK, Data, JPMorgan, Mainland Properties, Thomson Locations: Beijing, China, HONG KONG, China's, Hang, Hong Kong, Sydney
The company logo of Chinese developer Country Garden is pictured at the Shanghai Country Garden Center in Shanghai, China August 9, 2023. The company last week warned of its inability to meet offshore debt obligations. Country Garden did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters on Wednesday. With nearly $11 billion of offshore bonds and $6 billion of onshore loans, a default by Country Garden would set the stage for one of China's biggest corporate debt restructurings. Country Garden has also missed other offshore payments in the past few weeks, though those payments still have not seen their 30-day grace periods lapse.
Persons: Aly, Scott Murdoch, Sonali Paul Organizations: Shanghai Country Garden, REUTERS, Rights, Garden Holdings, HK, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, New York, China's, Sydney
REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsHONG KONG, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Country Garden's (2007.HK) entire offshore debt will be deemed to be in default if China's largest property developer fails to make a $15 million coupon payment on Tuesday, the end of a 30-day grace period. Lack of payment - which is expected after Country Garden last week warned about its inability to meet offshore debt obligations - would make the firm the latest in scores of Chinese developers who have defaulted. Country Garden has also missed other offshore payments in the past few weeks though those payments still have not seen their 30-day grace periods lapse. Country Garden declined to comment. With nearly $11 billion of offshore bonds and $6 billion of offshore loans, a default by Country Garden would set the stage for one of China's biggest corporate debt restructurings.
Persons: Edgar Su, Houlihan Lokey, Sidley Austin, Clare Jim, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, HK, China International Capital Corporation, Kingboard Holdings, JPMorgan, Thomson Locations: Garden's, City, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, HONG KONG, China, Hong Kong
An aerial view shows the 39 buildings developed by China Evergrande Group that authorities have issued demolition order, on the man-made Ocean Flower Island in Danzhou, Hainan province, China January 6, 2022. "The (investigation into Hui) clearly shows that Chinese policymakers prioritise political considerations to economic ones in dealing with Evergrande," he said. Evergrande and China's housing authority did not immediately respond to requests for comment during the week long National Day holiday. Gavekal in its report said that at the very least, an orderly restructuring of Evergrande seemed increasingly hard to achieve. A liquidation petition filed against Evergrande is scheduled for hearing in a Hong Kong court on Oct 30.
Persons: Aly, Hui Ka Yan, Hui, Xin Sun, Evergrande, Christopher Beddor, Sandra Chow, bondholder, Antonio Fatas, Xie Yu, Clare Jim, Kane Wu, Sumeet Chatterjee, Lincoln Organizations: China Evergrande Group, REUTERS, China Evergrande, HK, lurched, East Asian, King's College London, SOE, Evergrande, Thomson Locations: Danzhou, Hainan province, China, HONG KONG, Beijing, homebuyers, Asia, Pacific, Gavekal, Hong Kong, Evergrande
Sunac China files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection
  + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Michelle Toh | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Hong Kong CNN —One of China’s leading property developers, Sunac, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, shortly after winning approval from its creditors to restructure nearly $10 billion worth of debt. The company filed a petition for Chapter 15 protection with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. It’s the second big distressed Chinese developer in weeks to seek such protection: Evergrande made a Chapter 15 filing in the United States a month ago, after posting losses of $81 billion in the last two years. Entering the process may help Sunac China negotiate with overseas lenders as it works to overhaul its debt. “While Evergrande is still struggling to get their offshore creditors on board, Sunac has really overtaken them,” she said.
Persons: It’s, Evergrande, Sunac, Sandra Chow, it’s, Chow, , , ” Chow, , Andy Rose Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, US, Court, Southern, of, Asia, CNN, Evergrande Locations: China, Hong Kong, United States, of New York
The company logo of Chinese developer Country Garden is pictured at the Shanghai Country Garden Center in Shanghai, China August 9, 2023. A Country Garden spokesperson did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment on Monday about its latest debt repayment obligation. Country Garden last month warned of default risks if its financial performance continues to deteriorate. Last week, onshore bondholders approved to extend repayments of seven other Country Garden bonds by three years. Many creditors believe that Country Garden will have to restructure its offshore debt if it doesn't get liquidity support soon.
Persons: Aly, Sandra Chow, Chow, Kim, Ashurst, Xie Yu, Sumeet Chatterjee Organizations: Shanghai Country Garden, REUTERS, HK, London, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, HONG KONG, Beijing, Asia, Pacific, Hong Kong, New York, Lincoln
Country Garden faces fresh test for onshore bond extensions
  + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Xie Yu | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The voting, due to conclude by 10 p.m. Hong Kong time (1400 GMT) on Monday, will have onshore creditors decide on approving a proposal by Country Garden (2007.HK) to extend repayments of eight onshore bonds by three years. Country Garden did not immediately respond to request for comment. Country Garden has so far showed "higher willingness to stave off a default" compared to many of its peers, said Nicholas Chen, a Singapore-based analyst at research firm CreditSights. Chen expects Country Garden to continue striving to defer due bond payments on both onshore and offshore markets, given its inadequate liquidity position. ($1 = 7.3490 Chinese yuan renminbi)Reporting by Xie Yu; Editing by Sumeet Chatterjee and Lincoln Feast.
Persons: Nicholas Chen, Chen, Xie Yu, Sumeet Chatterjee Organizations: Country Garden, HK, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, Hong Kong, Singapore, Lincoln
Country Garden also offered on Tuesday to extend repayment of eight onshore bonds worth 10.8 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) by three years, according to people with knowledge of the matter and documents seen by Reuters. Country Garden did not respond to a request for comment. A general view of a construction site of residential buildings by Chinese developer Country Garden in Tianjin, China August 18, 2023. Country Garden has not missed a debt payment obligation, onshore or offshore. "The three-year extension of maturity offered by Country Garden looks better than restructuring plans by most of the other troubled developers," Meng said.
Persons: Gary Ng, Tingshu Wang, Susannah Streeter, Hargreaves Lansdown, DODGE, CreditSights, Ting Meng, Meng, Xie Yu, Shuyan Wang, Jason Xue, Sumeet Chatterjee, Christopher Cushing, Kim Coghill Organizations: HK, Reuters, Country, Natixis Asia Pacific, REUTERS, Services, Global, Hargreaves, Mainland Properties, CSI, ANZ, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, BEIJING, Tianjin, China, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Bengaluru
An unprecedented liquidity crisis in China's vast property sector is a major risk to a sputtering post-COVID recovery in the world's second-biggest economy, which has rattled global markets. Country Garden debt payment extension buys time for China's largest private developer to avoid default, and is good news for financial markets and the Chinese government, which has announced a raft of measures to support the property sector. In Friday's vote, 56.08% of participating Country Garden onshore creditors approved the extension, 43.64% opposed and 0.28% abstained, an official document shared with bondholders showed. Country Garden did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A default by Country Garden would have exacerbated the real estate crisis and put more strain on its onshore lenders.
Persons: spiralled, Junan, Zhou Hao, Moody's, Xie Yu, Kevin Huang, Li Gu, Sumeet Chatterjee, William Mallard Organizations: Reuters, HK, China Evergrande, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, Beijing, China, Caa1, Hong Kong, Shanghai
A view of closed shops in a mall at Country Garden's Forest City development in Johor Bahru, Malaysia August 16, 2023. Who is Country Garden and why do people care about its debt woes? How bad is Country Garden's financial situation? It faces 108.7 billion yuan ($14.9 billion) worth of debts due within 12 months, while its cash levels are around 101.1 billion yuan. It said Country Garden was facing tight liquidity and recovery prospects for bondholders could be weak.
Persons: Edgar Su, Will, Moody's, Xie Yu, Sumeet Chatterjee, David Holmes, Gerry Doyle Organizations: REUTERS, HK, China Evergrande, Thomson Locations: Garden's, City, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, HONG KONG, China, Evergrande, Will Beijing, Beijing, Guangdong, Caa1
A view of closed shops in a mall at Country Garden's Forest City development in Johor Bahru, Malaysia August 16, 2023. Who is Country Garden and why do people care about its debt woes? Until this year Country Garden was the largest Chinese developer by sales. It faces 108.7 billion yuan ($14.9 billion) worth of debts due within 12 months, while its cash levels are around 101.1 billion yuan. It said Country Garden was facing tight liquidity and recovery prospects for bondholders could be weak.
Persons: Edgar Su, Will, Moody's, Xie Yu, Sumeet Chatterjee, David Holmes Organizations: REUTERS, HK, China Evergrande, Thomson Locations: Garden's, City, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, HONG KONG, China, Evergrande, Will Beijing, Beijing, Guangdong, Caa1
Country Garden, a massive Chinese property developer, missed interest payments on two dollar bonds this week. However, it's the scale of Country Garden's projects that is a big warning signal for the Chinese real estate sector and the wider economy. Evergrande faced a liquidity crisis in 2020, prodding it to try to halve its around $100 billion debt by mid-2023. These efforts were scuppered by a slowdown in China's property sector and regulators' efforts to put brakes on property developers borrowing excessively. However, putting the brakes on borrowing started sending the property sector into a crisis.
Persons: Kristy Hung, Yang Guoqiang, Yang Huiyan, Yang, Moody's, Sandra Chow, Evergrande, Huileng Tan Organizations: Service, Bloomberg Intelligence, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, CNN, China Index Academy, Reuters, Pacific Research, New York Times, Caixa Bank Locations: Beijing, Wall, Silicon, China, Evergrande, Foshan, Asia, Pacific, CreditSights
China's real estate market roiled by default fears again
  + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Two years after Evergrande's debt troubles, worries about China's real estate sector are coming to the forefront again. In late July, its top leaders indicated a shift toward greater support for the real estate sector, paving the way for local governments to implement specific policies. For the last several years, Chinese authorities have attempted to curb debt-fueled speculation in the country's massive — and hot — real estate market. Real estate and related industries have accounted for about a quarter of China's economy. He pointed out that since China started its deleveraging campaign in 2016, it is very unlikely the state would step in to bail out real estate developers.
Persons: Qilai Shen, Dalian Wanda, Liu Haibo, Sandra Chow, Nomura, Chow, Evergrande, Redmond Wong, , Wong, Vanke, that's Organizations: Country Garden Holdings Co, Bloomberg, Getty, BEIJING, Reuters, CNBC, Country, Asia Pacific Research, CreditSights, Fitch, Saxo Markets Hong, China's, House Research, Stock, Poly Development, Research Locations: Baoding, Hebei province, China, Dalian, Hong Kong, Beijing, Saxo Markets Hong Kong
That this is happening to Country Garden is alarming investors. It had largely benefited from measures to bolster the property market last year that included more financial support. But recent events have led Country Garden to a point of distress that was unthinkable a year ago, when it was making nearly $50 billion in sales. The worry now is that even as Beijing has pledged more support to the property market, the measures may not be enough. But if Country Garden doesn’t make the payments it will trigger a default, scaring those who have lent it money in the past.
Persons: Sandra Chow Organizations: Pacific Research Locations: Beijing, China, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Asia, Pacific, CreditSights
HOW MUCH DEBT DOES DALIAN WANDA HAVE? Dalian Wanda Group, owned by China's once-richest man Wang Jianlin, is the country's largest commercial property developer managing many shopping malls, offices and hotels across the country. WHAT IS NEXT FOR DALIAN WANDA? If Wanda Commercial manages this repayment, the next deadline will be a 3.5 billion yuan onshore bond due on July 29. "The extreme volatility in Dalian Wanda's bond prices shows how fearful and emotional the market is at this point."
Persons: DALIAN WANDA, China's, Wang Jianlin, Wanda Commercial, Wanda, Sandra Chow, Scott Murdoch, Jamie Freed Organizations: Dalian Wanda, DALIAN, Dalian Wanda Group, Dalian Wanda Commercial Management, Zhuhai, Bloomberg News, Country Garden, HK, Ocean Group, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, Dalian, Hong Kong, Asia, Pacific, Sydney
Total: 25