PepsiCo Looks To Bolster China Presence PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), the world’s second-largest soft drink maker, said it plans to spend $2.5 billion over the next three years in China as it seeks to bolster its presence in the world’s largest country. New York-based PepsiCo announced $1 billion in China investments in 2008 and that total [...]

We all know about the Republican Party’s “capitalist-friendly” policies, calling for lower taxes and less regulation to get out of the way of business. Well here’s a surprise. Beijing has taken up the banner of the GOP! China’s State Council, also known as the Cabinet has launched a series of sweeping measures to boost small [...]

The New Gold Rush: Dollar is Down – China Rises Up Investors are rushing into gold and driving down the U.S. dollar. For the first time since the height of the banking crisis, the value of an ounce of gold has topped the psychologically significant ceiling of $1,000. Why the stampede? Investors are losing confidence [...]

703 MILLION EARS THE BIGGEST AUDIENCE IN THE WORLD China’s unimaginably large mobile phone industry just broke through another barrier today, surpassing 700 million users – 703 million to be exact. That’s twice the population of the United States which has subscribed to one of just three mobile phone companies in all of China. The [...]

It seems for now the world is watching China as a benchmark to compare the remaining global markets. The fact is they have developed into the main financier for the U.S. Now more than ever, China is receiving globally recognition which in turn is increasing their importance in the eyes of institutional investors. On Monday’s [...]