Incredible but true. Bloomberg report — Feb 22, 2016 Mongolia is seeking a $1.3 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China to complete a railway connecting its [Read more...]

21 August report Not yet widely reported. State news outlet Xinhua on Tuesday reported that China’s rail freight volume had dropped by nearly 11% (10.9%) on a [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Aug 9, 2015 China Securities Finance Corp. has quickly become one of the most influential investors in the Chinese stock market, with $483 billion of [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Jul 30, 2015   A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard at Tiananmen Square under crimson clouds at sunset in Beijing, China. Photographer: Feng [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Jul 12, 2015 For years after the 2008 financial crisis, Asia’s rapidly expanding economies propped up global growth, with China clocking a pace of more than [Read more...]

A Bloomberg report on Jul 8, 2015 The analysis of the demand for port and rail freight always begins with an examination of the market supply/demand at the buyers level. [Read more...]

Focusing on the US GDP growth change! Is that the right mark given other global changes this past month, like in China? The IMF has cut its global growth forecast by blaming [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Jul 8, 2015, 7:00 pm The iron ore rout isn’t done yet… …”the raw material will extend declines into the $30s a metric ton this [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Jul 8, 2015, 6:56 pm Templeton Emerging Markets Group calls it an act of “desperation.” UBS Wealth Management labels it “extreme.” And Wells Fargo [Read more...]

  The global iron ore bear market deepened this week “on concern that low-cost production from Australia and Brazil will expand further while demand stumbles in [Read more...]