Xi Jinping jackboot crushes Chinese property bubble

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Moody’s Investors Service, Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings have cut Chinese builders’ ratings a combined 91 times through Sept. 30, triple the number of this year’s upgrades. That’s already a record full-year count of downgrades.

China Evergrande Group remains in the spotlight, with some holders of dollar bonds with interest payments due Monday saying they had yet to receive them. The latest payment uncertainties came after the embattled firm missed initial coupon deadlines for two other offshore bonds last month.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.