Evergrande, China's biggest real-estate developer, is being liquidated. It has assets worth about $245 billion, but owes about $300 billion.

A Hong Kong court ordered the liquidation of China Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer.

Evergrande has assets of about $245 billion, but owes about $300 billion.

Its demise is a “controlled collapse,” but still raises systemic risk and will hurt investors, says an analyst.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Probably won’t hurt the investors, they’ll get paid. But all the individual contractors who worked for the company are very unlikely to actually see payment.