Evergrande’s US$1.31b fine, China cuts US Treasury holdings: the numbers moving markets

While investors saw Beijing’s holdings of US government debt shrink and US Treasuries yield rise, a life sentence for China Evergrande Group founder Hui Ka-yan marked a symbolic end to an era of breakneck expansion in the country’s property sector. Here are some of the figures that have drawn the most market attention this week. An 8.82 billion yuan fine for Hui Ka-yan’s Evergrande A Shenzhen court sentenced China Evergrande Group founder and former chairman Hui Ka-yan, also known as Xu Jiayin,...