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...Short March is underway across the country. "Everyone knows in its cities, China is building up - but it's also building out," says Jing Ulrich, managing director and head of research at JP Morgan in Hong Kong. In Beijing, a high-speed rail link will bring cities like Tianjin, 70 miles (113 km) away, into commuting distance by this summer. In places such as Chongqing to the west and Dalian in the north, says Ulrich, the same pattern of development is taking shape...
...Class Divisions While upscale businesses have unquestionably benefited from the influx of rich foreigners, it's less clear that their money trickles into the larger economy, helping lift living standards for less-wealthy Londoners. Paul Knox, head of U.K. wealth advisory services at JP Morgan, says rich expats "have tremendous spending power. Interior designers, domestic staff, schooling for their children, bars, restaurants, taxis, and more." On the other hand, "If a rich person brings $1 million into the economy, not all of that $1 million is going to filter into the wider economy," says Jonathan Said, senior economist...
...much of the industrial development of the U.S. after the Civil War.) But the job has become too big for one place to handle. Now Nylonkong, that interconnected tripartite city, greases the wheels of trade and development. This is where the great banks - Citigroup and HSBC, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan - have their headquarters and their key regional offices; this is where ambitious companies go to seek financing or go public. Hong Kong - whose stock market's capitalization jumped almost fourfold in the 10 years from 1996 - has especially been able to benefit from the business of the hundreds...
Investment-research firm KLD Research & Analytics launched a climate-change index in 2005. This year the big investment banks have piled in, too. JP Morgan introduced an index in February comprised of bonds from firms with limited vulnerability to global warming. ABN Amro launched a Climate Change and Environment Index in March, tracking stocks in businesses like emissions reduction and water filtration. In April, UBS introduced a global-warming futures index based on the weather in 15 U.S. cities. Merrill Lynch launched an energy-efficiency index in July. And in September HSBC unveiled what it claims is the largest climate...
...need of capital are courting investments from oil-and-gas-rich states such as Abu Dhabi and Russia, as well as from rising economies like China, which recently formed a $200 billion SWF to help the government invest its burgeoning foreign-exchange reserves. SWFs, says a senior banker at JP Morgan Chase, "are the new 'it' girl of global finance. Everyone wants a piece of them...