Implode-o-Meter News - With $21 Trillion, China's Savers Are Set to Change the World

With China's leadership aiming to scale back the role of investment in the domestic economy, the nation's surfeit of savings -- deposits currently stand at $21 trillion -- will increasingly need to be deployed overseas. That's also becoming easier, as Premier Li Keqiang relaxes capital-flow regulations.
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"This era will be marked by China shifting from a large net importer of capital to one of the world's largest exporters of capital," Charles Li, chief executive officer of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., the city's stock market, wrote in a blog this month. Eventually, there will be "fund outflows of historic proportions, driven by China's needs to deploy and diversify its national wealth to the global markets," he wrote.
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There are already signs of that potential. Chinese buyers topped Canadians to rank as the biggest foreign purchasers of U.S. homes by sales and dollar volume in the year through March, accounting for more than a quarter of all international spending... The U.S. wants more access to the world's second-biggest economy for its financial firms, something that's been elusive since China's WTO entry.

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With $21 Trillion, China's Savers Are Set to Change the World