Thursday, August 27, 2015
China's Ripple Effect
As its markets slide, its economy weakens, and its currency declines, many wonder if Boston’s real estate market will suffer -- but short-term,it may gain
By Tim Logan
GLOBE STAFF
With money from their country’s booming economy and seemingly unstoppable stock market, wealthy Chinese and corporate investors have spent some of their profits halfway around the world, buying into Boston’s red-hot real estate market. But after days of sharp declines on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, a currency devaluation by finance ministers in Beijing, and growing concern about a broad slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy, there are big questions about how much longer that money will keep coming.
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