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...Just one Chinese property group, Dalian Wanda, has successfully tapped global dollar debt investors this year....
...Some of Wanda’s peers lack significant non-real estate assets. For them, options are running out. They are trapped in a downward spiral of economic weakening and falling property values....
...The company’s lack of communication over its debt problems has added to market volatility, echoing the defaults of Evergrande and its peers in late 2021 when there was also a lack of official announcements...
...But those bonds are now trading at between 20 and 30 cents on the dollar, amid a continued lack of market access despite government efforts to boost confidence and encourage new borrowing....
...Wanda Austin has been nominated to join the Apple board. She is the former chief executive of the Aerospace Corporation....
...Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of China economics at Capital Economics in Singapore, said the announcement’s lack of detail on the scale of the promised measures meant investors would remain in wait-and-see...
...Real estate group Dalian Wanda is selling down its stake in Legendary Entertainment, a US movie studio best known for sci-fi blockbusters such as Dune....
...They include international investors who hold around $20bn of its debt and have been frustrated by the lack of concrete developments in the restructuring....
...The arm wrestle between meme traders and short sellers over AMC lacks underpinnings to fundamentals. Wanda’s debt-fuelled worldwide investments seem positively old-fashioned in contrast....
...Yet lingering questions stemming from a lack of transparency and complicated structure hang over the group, according to analysts....
...We don’t just live to work, it is just common decency to give people that flexibility,” Wanda Wyporska, executive director of The Equality Trust, tells me....
...The lack of a de facto premium suggests political concerns about listed landlords are still top of mind....
...The local industry is dominated by a few large players with Wanda Film accounting for 13 per cent of the market last year....
...Lack of transparent pay structures and failure to advertise pay rates for vacancies by the companies in the index were among “high risk” practices contributing to the gender pay gap, said the report....
...Eve also feels a seemingly excessive rage towards Wanda Wilson, a former friend now lauded as the most exciting and taboo-breaking artist of her generation....
...But their contributions are scattered throughout a series of loosely connected scenes that lack an overarching sense of structure....
...Wanda Goldwag, chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, says she is “concerned that regulated advice is not being clearly distinguished from ‘execution-only’ transactions....
...China’s box office revenues fell 9 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, a slump analysts blamed on a lack of quality domestic movies....
...Investors say that Evergrande’s unusual deal structure contributed to the lack of appetite from outside investors, but the high coupon also reflected rising anxiety about the risk from developers, which...
...The show is produced by Fun Factory, a company partly funded by Wang Sicong, son of Wang Jianlin, chairman of malls-to-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, whose investment forays into Hollywood...
...“Wanda must reach customers of all ages . . . Kids mean the future,” Dalian Wanda’s chairman, Wang Jianlin, wrote in a report....
...Finally, Evergrande has followed fellow developer Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties into the movie business, acquiring two Beijing-based cinema operators for Rmb595m in October....
...S&P cited the “abrupt decision to sell the bulk of its property development projects and its entire hotels portfolio” in July and Wanda’s overall lack of “strategic clarity and predictability” as the reason...
...In 2016, by contrast, privately owned companies such as Anbang and Dalian Wanda led the charge....
...In Asia, regulatory scrutiny by Beijing of some of the country’s largest and most acquisitive groups — including real estate-focused companies such as Dalian Wanda — has failed to slow down market growth...
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