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...result, "less than a handful of these new [malls] will meet expectations," Parker says. "China's most important cities are literally littered with spaces that are dark and underperforming." Statistics detailing nationwide vacancy rates for retail centers are hard to find, but in the economic powerhouses of Beijing and Shanghai, rates hover around 8%, according to real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. That's twice as high as rates in the strongest U.S. markets; in Singapore, less than 2% of retail space lacks tenants...
Wandering the cavernous information hall at Live Earth's Tokyo site on Saturday - munching on a whole-grain, locally made peanut butter muffin and browsing for a 100% hemp towel - I noticed the solar panels. Like the events in Sydney, Shanghai, London, Washington and other cities, Live Earth Tokyo was intended as a rock festival-cum-environmental fair, where concertgoers could learn about the energy-saving benefits of fluorescent lightbulbs while jamming to groups like Genesis, who reformed for the London show. Organizers had stressed that the massive festivals themselves would be as green as could be - the Tokyo show...
...that's because "all the good companies in China were listing in Hong Kong," which until very recently was off limits for the vast majority of Chinese investors. The result, in the first half of this decade, was a property bubble, particularly in more prosperous eastern cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen, that drove prices out of reach of ordinary Chinese...
...year," says a western banker in Hong Kong, "the word has definitely gone out that solid, state-run companies already trading in Hong Kong should consider IPOs on the mainland." If, in the process, that diverted some savings that was otherwise serving to drive up the price apartments in Shanghai - and it definitely did - that was fine...
...underwrite deals on mainland markets. They probably needn't worry too much, at least not yet. "Hong Kong is still an international market, and the mainland markets aren't, and won't be anytime soon," says Sun. "That's still enormously attractive to mainland (Chinese) companies." Indeed, the Shanghai-based Fosun Group, the largest privately held company in China, will try to raise more than $1 billion in an IPO in Hong Kong later this month - a deal underwritten by Morgan Stanley...