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Wall Street Breakfast

Country Garden default warning

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Country Garden (CTRYF) stock drops on debt default warning amid cash crunch, weak sales. (00:26) WW International (WW) rides the Ozempic (NVO) wave, closes up 13%. (01:26) Door maker PGT Innovations (PGTI) gains amid report of rejected $1.9B bid. (02:55)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.0

Good morning. Today is Tuesday, October 10th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

0:12.0

Country Garden warns that it may not be able to pay its debt.

0:15.8

The company formerly known as Weight Watchers

0:18.2

is riding the Ozmpic Wave.

0:20.3

And PGT innovations received a takeover bid but rejected it.

0:25.0

Country Garden on Tuesday warned it may not meet all of its offshore debt obligations and could be in for debt restructuring.

0:32.0

The property developer said its liquidity... and could be in for debt restructuring.

0:32.6

The property developer said its liquidity position will remain very tight in the short to medium term.

0:39.0

Country Gardens, Hong Kong listed shares dropped 9.5% on the news.

0:44.5

Sales for China's largest private property developer

0:47.6

have been under remarkable pressure

0:49.7

with its September sales down 80.7% year over year. In addition it faces significant

0:56.3

uncertainty regarding asset disposals as there has not been any industry-wide

1:01.4

improvement in property sales.

1:03.8

Country Gardens said in an exchange filing that it has not yet defaulted,

1:08.1

although the debt non-payment may lead to creditors demanding an acceleration of payment or pursuing enforcement action.

1:15.8

As of Tuesday, the company failed to make a $60 million loan payment.

1:20.1

It has also missed coupon payments on some dollar bonds since last month.

1:25.0

Shares of W.W. International closed up 13% on Monday.

1:30.0

The uptick comes after an article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the company's strategy to align itself with popular drugs used for weight loss, notably Ozimpic by Novonardis.

1:41.0

Facing the mounting pressure of popular weight loss medications,

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