Chinese who spent more than ever on Hong Kong real estate in the first quarter of this year now face a hurdle to overcome as rules get stricter on wealthy people in the mainland taking cash overseas. Homebuyers from the mainland spent around HK$43 billion ($5.5 billion) in Hong Kong in the three months through March, a record haul for that period, Midland Realty data show. While for years they’ve ...
Chinese who spent more than ever on Hong Kong real estate in the first quarter of this year now face a hurdle to overcome as rules get stricter on wealthy people in the mainland taking cash overseas. Homebuyers from the mainland spent around HK$43 billion ($5.5 billion) in Hong Kong in the three months through March, a record haul for that period, Midland Realty data show. While for years they’ve been a key cohort, this time around they are buying into a broader swathe of property, including two-bedroom apartments and chunks of office blocks. Last month’s shock move by China to rein in illegitimate cross-border funding channels threatens to curb that spending. Bloomberg Intelligence expects demand for higher-end homes could see a hit as the tougher enforcement of rules weighs on the ability of buyers to pay deposits that often require large down payments with cash. “The negative impact would be more on sales of luxury homes,” said Patrick Wong , senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “For luxury units with a sizable amount of lump sum, they may still need to move money out from mainland China to support their purchases.” China in May curbed trading of overseas equities and vowed to ramp up controls for banks. While Chinese citizens moving money overseas are well versed in changes from regulators, there remains a $50,000 limit per person on annual outflows. At stake is the current broad nature of where Chinese are buying property in Hong Kong. Highly educated and affluent Chinese, lured by Hong Kong’s low taxes and widened visa options, are driving a wave of immigration from the mainland to the former British colony. It’s spurring buoyancy in middle-class neighborhoods including Kai Tak and Wong Chuk Hang as many newcomers prefer newly built property. The median value of property purchased in Hong Kong by mainland Chinese was HK$6.95 million for the first four months this year, higher than the HK$5.43 million by locals, data from Midland show. “They contribute to ...
The artificial intelligence (AI) trade has created significant wealth for investors who bought in five years ago. There are now 14 publicly traded companies with market caps over $1 trillion, many of which have become multibaggers many times over. Remarkably, one company is now nearly a 17-bagger since 2021. No, it's not Nvidia, and one Wall Street analyst still sees 78% upside. Continue reading
The artificial intelligence (AI) trade has created significant wealth for investors who bought in five years ago. There are now 14 publicly traded companies with market caps over $1 trillion, many of which have become multibaggers many times over. Remarkably, one company is now nearly a 17-bagger since 2021. No, it's not Nvidia, and one Wall Street analyst still sees 78% upside. Continue reading
Andrew Left , one of the world’s most prominent short sellers, was found guilty of securities fraud by a federal jury after a landmark trial that scrutinized his use of social media to move the price of stocks. The verdict was handed down Monday in Los Angeles following a three-week trial and two full days of jury deliberations. Left was accused of using explosive tweets about dozens of companies ...
Andrew Left , one of the world’s most prominent short sellers, was found guilty of securities fraud by a federal jury after a landmark trial that scrutinized his use of social media to move the price of stocks. The verdict was handed down Monday in Los Angeles following a three-week trial and two full days of jury deliberations. Left was accused of using explosive tweets about dozens of companies to illegally influence their shares and make a quick profit. Prosecutors said he earned about $20 million from such trades from 2018 to 2023. Left, founder of Citron Research , took the rare step by a criminal defendant to testify in his own defense. That allowed him to explain his tweets and trades to jurors under friendly questioning by his lawyer. But he also faced tense cross-examination by prosecutors who challenged his credibility with evidence including messages he’d sent at the time of the trades showing he wasn’t being truthful. The verdict is a win for the US Justice Department in a white-collar criminal trial under President Donald Trump ’s administration — though the Left case started under former President Joe Biden . Many such prosecutions have been scrapped under Trump, who has also issued pardons for some defendants who were convicted. The trial put a spotlight on the activities of activist short sellers, who highlight companies they think are overvalued and can profit if the stock goes down. The case also examined when statements of opinion about a company cross into market manipulation — a thorny topic with potential implications for Wall Street. Left’s 2024 indictment followed a wide-ranging US probe of how participants in the lightly regulated short-selling industry trade. Firms typically build up bets that a particular company’s shares will fall, then issue research reports detailing their positions to the broader market. At the heart of the case were Left’s tweets on the platform now called X. Prosecutors alleged that his private communications around ...
Bloom Energy Corp. , a supplier to Oracle Corp. that’s seen its stock price double in the past two months, doesn’t see a need to sell shares to meet surging demand from data centers, its chief executive officer says. The company makes fuel cells that generate electricity from natural gas through a chemical reaction, rather than burning the fuel. Bloom can recover the cost of building a new factory...
Bloom Energy Corp. , a supplier to Oracle Corp. that’s seen its stock price double in the past two months, doesn’t see a need to sell shares to meet surging demand from data centers, its chief executive officer says. The company makes fuel cells that generate electricity from natural gas through a chemical reaction, rather than burning the fuel. Bloom can recover the cost of building a new factory in six months through sales, making it unnecessary to raise capital, KR Sridhar said in an interview Monday with Bloomberg News in San Francisco. “If there is a need, obviously, we will go and raise money, but there is no reason to just go raise money for us right now,” Sridhar said. San Jose, California-based Bloom estimates it needs to spend about $100 million to $150 million for production of one gigawatt of fuel cells, which is equivalent to a traditional nuclear reactor. Bloom recently struck a deal with Oracle to supply as much as 2.8 gigawatts of fuel-cell power for the software company’s data centers. Sridhar said his firm’s modular power units can be used to scale up a data center more quickly with fewer emissions compared to gas turbines. The company’s shares have risen by more than 200% since the start of the year on the back of investor enthusiasm over potential demand for its technology to power data centers. Citi analyst Vikram Bagri sees the stock, which closed at $273.51 on Monday, as fully valued amid increasing competition to supply artificial intelligence capacity needs, according to a May 28 research note.
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Sven Piper/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Executive Summary Imagine this picture. It's very late at night, and the lights of the skyscrapers lining Wall Street are still burning bright. A gigantic document containing well over 300 pages has landed quietly on the desk of each of the fund managers. That was Space Exploration Technologies Corp., aka SpaceX's ( SPCX ) S-1 filing . For many years, C...
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