If such partial disclosures cause one of the best run foreign companies operating in China to collapse, consider what havoc they would wreak on other stocks.
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Sceptics argue that much of this investment, especially in China, is in the export sector and so will collapse as sales to America weaken.
For Mr Wen, Longbridge - which only six years ago was a symbol of British industrial failure following the collapse of Rover - shows the opportunities available to both China and the UK from deepening industrial ties.
In part, the decline was down to the collapse of trade with the Soviet block: new trade with China filled only part of the hole.
Demand from South-East Asian countries for Chinese goods has slumped, and the collapse of their currencies has hit exports to other markets too, since China has refused to devalue its yuan to compete.
Wim Elfrink, a Dutchman living in India in charge of Cisco's booming global services business, talks about using the Internet to collapse the cost of U.S. medicine by employing Malaysian doctors or making China's urban electrical grid more efficient with an intelligent Cisco data network controlling the power.
Some pundits agonise that profit growth built on the impoverishment of workers at home and the export of jobs abroad as firms outsource operations to China and India cannot be sustained: consumer confidence will fall, demand will plummet and profits will collapse.
Silver has been the favored choice among the momentum crowd subscribing to all sorts of extreme calamities: A dollar collapse, a forever accommodating FED, and an ever-growing demand for precious metals from China.
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The main issue was a virtual collapse of net interest margins despite having a retail deposit franchise advantage over virtually every other bank in China.
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The industry, which gets between 5% and 10% of its revenues from recycling, has also been hit by a world-wide collapse in prices for its recycled products, especially cardboard, which economists blame on the slowdown in China.
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