HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Mingling with power brokers at celebrations to mark the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, a beaming Mr Hui Ka Yan showed no signs that his company, China Evergrande, was facing mounting pressure with debt repayments. Mr Hui, wearing a navy blue suit and open-neck shirt, looked relaxed […]
By Walter Bianchi and Cassandra Garrison BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina appointed a government team to kick off talks with creditors to renegotiate about $100 billion in sovereign debt as the new center-left administration of President Alberto Fernandez postponed payments on some of its short-term debt. The “external debt sustainability management unit” was created in […]
FILE PHOTO: Gebran Bassil, a Lebanese politician and head of the Free Patriotic movement, talks during an interview with Reuters in Sin-el-fil, Lebanon July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File PhotoBEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil criticised Sunni former prime minister Saad al-Hariri on Tuesday for putting himself forward to lead a government that would […]
