The world’s second-largest economy has helped alleviate some price pressures caused by the pandemic, and appears likely to keep doing so—at least for a while.

Video footage showing crying toddlers and infants in a Shanghai hospital has sparked outrage at China’s pandemic rules. The hospital says it is a temporary situation as it responds to a surge in...

China’s share of U.S. imports hits a 20-year low, with Mexico and Canada becoming America’s top two trade partners.

An aging population that values its free time set the stage for economic stagnation. Then came Covid-19 and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The economic model that took the country from poverty to great-power status seems broken, and everywhere are signs of distress.

Slowing growth has damped expectations that the Chinese economy will become the world’s largest by the end of the decade.

Getting a clear picture of the country’s economic woes has become more difficult as official figures and private analysis vanish.

As China tries to turn the page on one of its worst stretches of growth since the 1970s, its economy is being weighed down by the colossal debts of its local governments.

Academic research and data show that as the country’s economy matures, more opportunities go to the children of wealthy and politically connected elites, posing a challenge to the ruling Communist...

Ten days after a technology worker gets an ‘abnormal’ Covid test result, she is sent on a long trip to one of Shanghai’s mass quarantine facilities.

Stocks in China are primed for a steep fall Monday when markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen reopen after a week-long closure, even as Chinese authorities try to calm frayed nerves over the fast-spread...

President Trump late Saturday said he would not seek a quarantine on New York, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut after raising the idea earlier in the day and said his administration would instead...

Investors on a perpetual search for the next big thing pile into anything hot, such as bitcoin or garlic. Such feeding frenzies rarely end well. Travis Scott Nike Air Force 1s for $2,667, anyone?

Chinese investment bank Citic Securities is remaking Hong Kong brokerage CLSA in its own image, in a microcosm of how the Asian financial hub is changing.

The giant retail platform has included listings for banned, unsafe, counterfeit, mislabeled products. One reason: It aggressively wooed China’s manufacturers to cut out the middleman and sell...

BlackRock is about to start buying billions of dollars in corporate bonds for the Fed, reflecting the firm’s rise to financial might but also opening it to scrutiny as it steers money into companies...

Fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is widening the gap between haves and have-nots in China, a trend that could bring social tensions and undermine the country’s stronger-than-expected economic...

China, after years of pumping out financial support to keep companies afloat and workers happy, has embarked on a debt reckoning—rapidly building a bankruptcy system to take on a significant pickup...

In China, banks and internet lenders trying to collect on a growing pile of overdue credit-card bills and personal loans are resorting to sometimes aggressive tactics to get borrowers to repay.

Even after second-quarter malaise, Beijing still seems inclined to stick to half measures. That could be a historic mistake.

HNA, which was one of China’s most aggressively acquisitive companies until mounting debts forced it to abandon its global ambitions, was effectively taken over by the Hainan provincial government.

U.S.-based Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge-fund firm, has won approval to sell investment products to institutional and high-net-worth investors in China.

Germans won’t stop saving. But in a world of negative interest rates, stockpiling cash has left German households poorer than those in Greece, hindered companies from investing and restrained...

Ant Group, which revolutionized China’s payments industry, is learning how difficult it is to separate people from their mobile phones.

As the fast-spreading coronavirus has damped sales, hurt productivity and halted operations at companies across China, private businesses that make up a large and crucial part of the economy have...

Chinese households are losing faith in the nation’s future. Unless Beijing can reassure them, they could drag down the entire economy.

China’s venture-capital boom, which spawned some of the world’s most valuable technology companies and dozens of rags-to-riches entrepreneur tales in recent years, has come to an end.

Bottlenecks are clearing in some places, executives and economists say, but the prospect of more Covid-19 outbreaks raises concerns that some supply-chain snarls could persist into next year.

The Japanese bank is seeking to establish a securities business in mainland China in which it would take a controlling stake.

Ant Financial Services, the world’s most valuable private financial-technology company, logged its largest quarterly loss in years, showing how costly it is to compete in China’s rapidly evolving...

China’s HNA Group plans to sell its stake in a U.S. company that owns dozens of Hilton hotels and other properties, accelerating plans to dispose of its overseas assets.

Investors in China poured more than $141 billion into domestic money-market mutual funds in the first quarter, bringing the sector’s total assets under management near a record high.

Chinese investors who once bought New York City hotels and other Western assets are placing their money elsewhere, including Indonesia’s nickel industry.

The Chinese financial-technology giant controlled by Jack Ma released detailed financials for the first time as it gears up for what is likely to be a record-breaking IPO. The filing showed a highly...

Credit-grading firms are giving out increasingly optimistic appraisals as they fight for market share in booming debt-securities markets. “We don’t trust the ratings.”

Ant Financial, which grew out of Alibaba, controls the world’s largest money-market fund, handled more payments last year than Mastercard and is more valuable than Goldman Sachs. Its power and...

A host of veteran executives and financiers helped fuel WeWork’s spectacular rise and fall, pouring in capital while ceding control to its founder, despite mounting problems.

Pent-up U.S. demand, fed by federal stimulus and pandemic-sparked savings, fuels expansion from China to Europe to South America. It also is making some countries fret about inflation and their...

Chinese financial-technology giant Ant Financial’s quarterly profit fell by half from a year ago, as it continued to spend heavily to attract and retain customers in China’s fast-growing internet-c...

The country’s factories lack customers and are pushing exports harder, raising trade tensions.

Early warning signs of inflation are appearing in some parts of Asia, as higher energy and food prices start to bite in countries that recently seemed immune to cost pressures.

China is falling into a “balance-sheet recession” and needs to ramp up fiscal stimulus quickly to address the challenge, according to the economist who coined the phrase to explain Japan’s descent...

China aims to lift births, but some demographers expect its population to shrink as soon as this year as job uncertainties push young people to delay having children.

China’s aggressive campaign to root out speculative real-estate activity could slow the country’s growth rate for years to come, economists say, even if a major housing correction is averted.

Consumer prices in the world’s second-largest economy have held relatively steady, but China’s experience will be hard to replicate elsewhere.

Widespread power shortfalls have hurt the recovery of the world’s second-largest economy and add to a global energy squeeze that risks upsetting the post-pandemic recovery.

Beijing is forcing the world’s largest money-market fund, Ant Financial’s Tianhong Yu’e Bao, to shrink, creating a bonanza for the dozen other money-market funds that Ant has added to its investment...

The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 7.7% on the first day of trading after the extended Lunar New Year break, as Chinese markets dropped sharply because of heightened anxiety over the...

Chinese families and businesses socked away huge cash piles they might feel reluctant to spend.

Young workers and job seekers, who often spend more of their income as they are just starting out, are struggling.

Rising raw-materials costs and unrelenting supply-chain constraints are prompting many Chinese exporters to increase prices for the goods they sell abroad, raising fears it may add to global inflat...

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is planning to raise up to $6 billion in its initial public offering next month, down from the $10 billion previously expected after plans for a dual offering on...

Staples is moving forward with plans to sell its operations in China, as it looks to focus on its business closer to home.

Ant Group, the Chinese tech and financial-services giant that owns mobile-payments network Alipay, said it is planning IPOs in Hong Kong and Shanghai, bypassing New York. The combined offering could...

China is the only major economy expected to report growth for 2020, helping it close the gap with the U.S. Lifted by its quick recovery from Covid-19, it has also expanded its role in global trade...

Troubled Chinese conglomerate Anbang Insurance said it will receive a $9.7 billion capital injection from an industry-rescue fund to help stabilize its operations and keep it solvent while it tries...

The push is driven by a deepening conviction within the country’s leadership that markets and entrepreneurs are not to be fully trusted. “The market-reform camp is all but gone,” says one economist.

China’s central bank is allowing foreign credit-rating firms access to the country’s $9 trillion domestic bond market after the rollout of the so-called Bond Connect program linking the market with...

As China’s most famous celebrity business tycoon, Jack Ma has done more than build Alibaba into one of the world’s biggest companies—he has also helped create China’s technology boom by inspiring a...

Mastercard, after years of frustrated attempts to enter the Chinese market, is trying again by joining with a Chinese company close to the regulator in charge of approving credit card businesses.

Ant Group’s coming IPOs could be among the world’s largest in history, with the company aiming for a market valuation in excess of $200 billion, a person familiar with its plans said.

HNA Group Co. has fallen behind in repaying loans it obtained from employees and individual investors on an internet-lending platform, a sign it is having difficulty meeting some debt obligations.

Ant Group, the startup controlled by Jack Ma that is gearing up for a two-part initial public offering, wants potential investors to see it as a technology company—but it remains in focus with...

By offering as little as a few bucks at a time to new borrowers, a microlending business of Chinese technology giant Ant Financial has quietly swelled into one of China’s largest providers of...

Labor shortages are materializing across China as young people shun factory jobs and more migrant workers stay home, offering a possible preview of larger challenges ahead as the workforce ages and...

Maintaining Hong Kong’s position as a global financial powerhouse requires urgent action not only on resolving the political stalemate but also on deep, festering problems with the city’s economic...

The executive who oversaw Vanguard Group’s expansion in China and recently served as head of Asia has left the world’s second-largest asset manager.

Demand has exploded for Dr. Glazer’s practice, which treats traders, fund managers and bankers who battle mental-health problems.

Silicon Valley Bank grew too fast using borrowed money—and the risks were lurking in plain sight.

China’s attempts to support specific industries have been a mixed bag—and when they succeed it often isn’t for the reasons many observers, both critics and supporters, tend to think.