Laura He - Reporter and Digital Producer, CNN Business
Laura He
Reporter and Digital Producer, CNN Business
Laura He is a reporter and digital producer for CNN Business.
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Japan’s stock market rally fades as fear returns
Aug 8, 2024
A comeback rally in Japanese stocks has quickly lost steam, as the specter of a US economic slowdown and further yen volatility cast a long shadow across financial markets.
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Stock markets rally after global rout
Aug 6, 2024
Global markets bounced back after a rout Monday that dragged the Dow down 1,000 points and sent the Japan’s Nikkei crashing.
Japanese stocks rebound from worst crash since 1987 while global markets are mixed
Aug 6, 2024
Japanese shares soared Tuesday, clawing back some of their record losses from the previous day and underpinning a patchy recovery on global markets.
Japanese stocks crash in biggest one-day drop since 1987 as global market rout intensifies
Aug 5, 2024
Japanese stocks on Monday suffered their biggest daily loss since 1987 as fears about a US economic slowdown sent shock waves through global markets.
Japan stocks plunge by nearly 6% in biggest drop since start of pandemic
Aug 2, 2024
Japanese stocks plunged Friday as global markets were rattled by worries about the US economy and as traders braced for further interest rate hikes from the Bank of Japan.
China’s leaders have floated the idea of raising the retirement age. It hasn’t gone down well
Jul 23, 2024
China has announced plans to raise some of the world’s lowest statutory retirement ages as it tries to cope with the consequences of a rapidly ageing population and a pensions funding crisis.
China economy: Key meeting offers few clues on how to tackle worsening downturn
Jul 19, 2024
China’s ruling Communist Party has set ambitious long-term policy goals at its most important political meeting on reform, but offered little detail on how to pull the world’s second-largest economy out of a worsening downturn.
China examining if EU is putting up ‘trade barriers’ as tensions intensify
Jul 10, 2024
The Chinese government said Wednesday that it would investigate whether the European Union’s probes into Chinese companies constitute “trade barriers.”
Chinese EV giant BYD to build $1 billion plant in Turkey
Jul 9, 2024
China’s BYD, which vies with Tesla for the title of the world’s top maker of battery electric vehicles, has agreed to build a $1 billion car factory in Turkey, the Turkish government has announced.
Beijing steps up probe into EU brandy imports as trade tensions deepen after tariffs on Chinese EVs
Jul 8, 2024
Beijing has intensified its anti-dumping investigation into imports of European brandy.
Tesla is now an official Chinese government car
Jul 5, 2024
For the first time ever, Tesla cars have been placed on a Chinese government’s purchase list, according to state-owned media outlet Paper.cn.
Chinese government bonds are on fire. That’s ringing alarm bells in Beijing
Jul 3, 2024
Money is rushing into Chinese government bonds, sending their prices soaring as investors hunt for a safer alternative to real estate and stocks. Beijing is worried about a bust that could bring down some banks.
There is no end in sight for China’s uneven economic recovery
Jul 1, 2024
Factory activity among China’s private firms expanded at the fastest pace in three years, a private gauge showed Monday. But an official survey of bigger business showed activity shrinking.
Chinese cities desperate for cash are chasing companies for taxes — some from the 1990s
Jun 21, 2024
Authorities in cash-strapped Chinese cities are chasing companies for taxes dating back years, and in some cases decades, as they try to plug a hole blown in their finances by the real estate crisis.
Alfa Bank: US-sanctioned Russian banking giant expands in China
Jun 20, 2024
Battered by Western sanctions, Russia’s largest privately owned bank is expanding its business in the world’s second-largest economy.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumps BYD shares following rise in trade tension over Chinese EVs
Jun 18, 2024
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has further cut its large stake in BYD, which vies with Tesla as the world’s largest electric car (EV) maker, as global trade tensions escalate over Chinese EVs.
About
Laura He is a reporter and digital producer for CNN Business, based in Hong Kong. She covers news about Asian business and markets, with a focus on China.
Before joining CNN, Laura He was a senior financial correspondent for South China Morning Post based in Hong Kong. Prior to that she worked for Dow Jones in both Hong Kong as well as San Francisco. In the U.S. she also worked for Forbes and wrote about Chinese entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. She started her career with Xinhua News Agency working in both Hong Kong as the chief financial correspondent and on-air reporter, as well as in Beijing as an editor.
Laura He holds a Master’s in journalism from Stanford University and speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
