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How too much ambition caused the Huangs to lose control of their own company?

The current industrial reshuffle offers a golden opportunity for top-notch players in the private equity game to seek out good investment openings.

Dairy giant Taizinai is in crisis. To blame are flawed decision making, blind expansion, and the personality of an all-powerful leader.

In the value chain of traditional investment banks and venture capital firms, financial advisors play a unique role in the financial capital sector by helping ventures build IPO models. But their livelihoods are being challenged by the global economic crisis. How can they adapt to survive?

The NYSE was wise enough to take precautions even during a bullish market. That proactive approach is beginning to pay off.

A lack of international expertise and a habit of only tapping into a limited domestic talent pool has backed China’s fund companies into a corner.

China’s financial industry is learning from an innovative new credit model-banks combined with venture capital.

After the Internet, urban commercial banks (UCBs) have become one of the hottest fields for investment.

Business integrity often reflects company management skills.

Yanjing Beer has already become a winner of Olympic Concept before the Games opens.

Increasing R&D investment once stoked a boom in the IT industry. But lately, a slowing economy has forced high-tech businesses to cut down on R&D expenditures in order to maintain respectable profit margins.

Expanding the number of medicine chain stores has met with disappointing profits. But how does Nepstar turn those losses into surpluses

Under the pressure from public opinion, the long-term strategies of China’s financial institutions are being tested by short-term losses.

Will China’s economy continue to overheat under inflationary pressure or will it follow the international trend and start to cool off? The uncertainty ahead is a thorny issue for corporate management.

The oil price is skyrocketing, the renminbi is appreciating, labor expenses are rising, tax rates are being adjusted, and the business climate is being dramatically transformed. So what do they mean for enterprises?

Realtors say they aren’t at the turning point yet.

The A-share bull market has been a banquet for funds. But how long will China’s rising fund market keep pace with the country’s stock market?

Is the dramatic rise in the price of oil to blame?

Despite the fact that trillions of RMB are being made in China’s stock markets, consumer demand is largely being fueled by other factors. Chinese would still rather invest than spend.

China’s massive foreign exchange reserves have made Chinese enterprises leading players in the international market of mergers and acquisitions. In the meantime, China is developing into formidable capital exporter.

Under the double pressure of rising bank interest rates and the heated capital market, the insurance industry may be in the ultimate dark before dawn.

A comparison of American and Chinese blue chips shows that the excessive prosperity of Chinese financial firms might actually foretell an economic bubble.

Although crude oil prices have already hit record highs, there’s no indication that prices will stablize in any time soon. China’s economy, which is in the progress of heavy industrialization, is facing enormous challenges.

China is the locomotive of the world’s economic growth, but in the global merger and acquisition market, it is simply a follower.

In the fierce competition, enterprises owned by central government are posing a trend of annual increase with continuous integrations, which will become the strategic track for central enterprise expansion.

With steep profit growth curves and high stock prices, insurance companies are becoming the new cash cows.

Beijing and Shanghai are competing for the title of “China’s financial center”.

Demand is outstripping the supply of fund managers in a rapidly expanding industry.

China is now the world’s second largest vehicle consuming market and the third largest auto producer.

There are signs that global venture capital is shifting towards the East.

Increasingly conservative export-oriented industrial policies, combined with foreign exchange reserve diversification and the opening-up of capital accounts are turning foreign exchange reserves into a major driving force behind the changes in China’

Now many are anxiously waiting to see how Wen-Chi Chen will lead VIA as it fights for survival in the face of the powerful rivals and doubtful shareholders.

As budding Chinese Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) become the new focus of the global capital market, Chinese enterprises are becoming the apple of broker’s eyes at stock exchanges around the world.

Domestic TV makers, who have nurtured the flat-panel TV market in China, are between a rock and a hard place, as they are trapped between an insufficient components supply and a competitive market.

After 20 years of a tortoise-hare race in the industry of household appliances, China’s household appliances manufacturers come to the stone over which the mobile industry has previously stumbled. Will flat-panel TV makers stumble over the same stone

China’s policy making tendency to encourage imports and improve the investment environment will send out more opportunities for global firms to become technology creditors of China.

Domestic investors have to understand that accounting and auditing are more of an “art” than a “science”. When it comes to the figures, there is no such thing as “absolutes”.

The overall margin of listed companies this year will continue to edge down.

Jiangsu Chunlan is perhaps the last listed electric appliance company that has slipped into red ink.

New report outlines latest trends and predicts more price wars.

Caterpillar, the world’s No.1 maker of earthmoving machinery, was feeling the heat from both American politicians and Chinese media.

Private companies which have been lingering around the Chinese economy are now moving quickly to center stage by joining forces for a big business conglomerate.

Besides petrol, what other fuels are available for future automobiles?