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...Additional reporting by Thomas Hale...
...Tom Hale is the Shanghai correspondent and he says the real impact of China’s Covid policy has yet to play out....
...PwC has resigned from the audits of developers Hopson Development, Shimao and Guangzhou R&F in recent months, stoking fears of an auditor exodus from the industry as groups face payments on their debts and...
...R&F is developing four London projects collectively worth about £2bn through its subsidiary R&F Properties....
...Last week Guangzhou R&F, another developer, was placed in restrictive default by Fitch after extending maturities on its debts. Defaults are expected to continue this year....
...Aside from Evergrande, Guangzhou R&F has been one of the developers to come under the most scrutiny....
...R&F Properties, a subsidiary of Guangzhou R&F, and Hong Kong-listed developer CC Land that also owns the “Cheesegrater” tower, paid close to £500m in 2017 for a site in Nine Elms, south-west London, which...
...The bonds of Guangzhou R&F, another Chinese property developer, edged lower in Shanghai on Tuesday to about 60 per cent of their face value, following falls of more than 20 per cent a day earlier....
...This year it completed the $1.1bn purchase of a 70 per cent stake in a logistics park in south China developed by Guangzhou R&F, a real estate developer that this week came under severe pressure in bond...
...A sell-off in its bonds soon spread to other heavily leveraged developers, including Fantasia and Guangzhou R&F, whose bonds have fallen sharply in recent days....
...A frantic sell-off surrounding Evergrande’s debt and equity has shown signs of spreading to other developers, including Guangzhou R&F and Fantasia Group....
...Guangzhou R&F was downgraded by Moody’s on Friday over concerns it would have a tougher time issuing debt to settle old obligations, a process known as refinancing....
...“Banks at Glasgow saw the alliance as a kind of ethereal thing on climate change without ever mentioning the F-word: fossil fuels,” said Beau O’Sullivan, from the Sunrise Project, a network of NGOs....
...Fears over refinancing have hit other developers with dollar debts, including Fantasia Group, which was downgraded last week, and Guangzhou R & F....
...Reporting by Thomas Hale in Hong Kong, Sun Yu in Beijing and Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...In 2019, China’s outbound FDI was $77bn, less than half the level in 2017, according to data from Jean-Marc F Blanchard, founding executive director at the Wong MNC Center, a think-tank in California....
...Jean-Marc F Blanchard, an executive director at the Mr and Mrs S H Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, a California-based think-tank, said the longer-term decline in Chinese FDI in the...
...China Yida, Guorui Properties and Guangzhou R&F are facing similar problems but have worked out some refinancing options....
...“Exports to Asia, where the pandemic seems to be under control and the economic recovery is in decent shape, is fuelling a big chunk of the global recovery,” said Erik F Nielsen, global head of research...
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...They would use the new UK systems to report on their use of ODS and F-gases....
...My head’s f***ked. I don’t know what else I can do.”...
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