Getting a stake in the Chinese consumer led economy is bound to be a considerably important development in the investment management world in the coming years. The safest way to play the future is to invest in an ETF that concentrates its investment goals on the domestic market.

Whether it’s a high-end smartphone or a knock-off designer bag, China makes it all. Everywhere stock rooms are filled with Chinese products. China beat local manufacturers all over the world and became the world’s factory in the process. How did they accomplish such an amazing feat?

These five Taiwan IPOs have been big gainers in the past year

Not much is going right inside the Chinese economy these days but the performance of China's biggest international investment in the resources industry appears to be worse than anything happening at home. Sino Iron, an iron ore mine in Australia has been trouble almost from the day it was launched nine [...]

By Nangyal Tsering While iron ore prices continue to fall, the world’s largest producers are gaining market share at the expense of smaller players. Iron ore prices have collapsed by nearly 50 percent over the past year, with the benchmark 62 percent FE iron ore for Qingdao delivery hitting a nearly six-year [...]

Not many investors can afford to commit more capital after posting losses approaching $10 billion, with the added indignity of a local partner hurling insults, but that's been China's recent experience of the Australian iron ore industry. The money has been spent on two ventures based on turning a low-grade form [...]

In its latest move to push forward reform, China has announced a scheme that will allow cross-border equity investment between Shanghai and Hong Kong. Investors in Hong Kong will be allowed to buy up to 300 billion yuan worth of domestic A-shares, while domestic investors will be allowed to buy [...]

Investors in China’s main financial district are talking about the following before the start of trade today:  Stocks may be mixed today amid continuing worries about the global economy and inconsistent signs that China’s own growth will bottom out in the coming quarter as many hope.  For instance, the price of steel, [...]

China said this week the country’s GDP grew by 9.1% in the third quarter from a year earlier, among the best growth rates in the world. Industrial production climbed by 13.8% during the period. Yet if China’s economic growth rate is so good, why is its steel industry, the world’s largest, [...]

Investors in China’s main financial district are talking about the following before the start of trade today:  Demand for shares in China today may be buoyed by overnight news of profit growth at U.S. banks.  Major U.S. stock indices all rose last night. U.S. stocks gained even though a Chinese GDP report yesterday stoked [...]

China's steel companies struggle from high iron ore prices. The China Iron & Steel Association expects steel demand to stabilize if not outright decline by as much as 4.6% in 2011 due to the high cost of inputs, mainly iron ore imports from Brazil and Australia.

China and Australia sign $600 million iron ore financing deal.

Australia's tilt back to Japan.

Japan export stocks rise on weaker yen, positive Thursday session on Wall St.; Chinese refiners and financials rebound; resource stocks and Babcock & Brown slump, keeping Australia flat.

The Luxembourg multinational has discussions on cooperation with China's second-biggest steel maker.

As snow storms pummel the country, these three stocks look like good picks.