ICYMI – China pulls back from U.S. private equity

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ICYMI, the Financial Times carried a report on the holiday Monday, in brief:

  • China’s state-backed funds are pulling back from investing in the funds of U.S.-headquartered private capital firms amid an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies

The FT is gated, but in summary:

  • Chinese state-backed funds have stopped making new investments in U.S. private equity since the start of the trade war
  • part of a broader strategic financial decoupling from the U.S.
  • China Investment Corporation (CIC) is among the state-backed funds that are pulling back

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.