Money talks: China jitters
Money Talks from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Amazon started as an online bookstore then moved to dominate online retailing and cloud computing. |
| 0:32.0 | Will it now change the game for digital advertising? |
| 0:35.0 | It's going to be the largest player |
| 0:37.5 | in digital advertising in America this year, |
| 0:40.0 | overtaking the Telecom's Giants, Verizon, and AT&T. |
| 0:44.1 | And we get back to basics. |
| 0:48.6 | Join me, Captain Sensible, on my economic policy tour of London. |
| 0:53.0 | We're standing by a pot hole and a sign warning of some maintenance to come. |
| 0:57.0 | And indeed, maintenance spending on infrastructure is the first boring, sensible recommendation that we have in this week's |
| 1:04.3 | economist. I'm Ratch Neshine Bogue at the Economist and you're listening to money talks. |
| 1:12.0 | First... to China, where the government is worried about the state of the economy. |
| 1:19.0 | China's stock market is one of the world's worst performing stock markets this year and GDP figures released last week |
| 1:25.8 | revealed a slowing pace of growth. In recent days though officials have stepped in to |
| 1:31.3 | soothe investors. |
| 1:32.9 | On Monday, the stock market had its best day since March 2016. |
| 1:37.0 | Simon Rabinovich is our Asia economics editor. |
| 1:39.9 | Hello Simon. |
| 1:41.2 | Hi, Russia. Why has the stock market done so poorly this year? |
| 1:45.0 | The stock market in China is very immature, so the day-to-day movements I don't want to put too much |
| 1:49.8 | emphasis on there being kind of a fundamental reason for them. |
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