BEIJING—China will step up oversight of inbound foreign-direct investment and pay special attention to hot-money flows into certain sensitive sectors such as the property market, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said Tuesday. The comment comes a day after China announced rules to curb such inflows by limiting property purchases by foreign individuals and companies. [...]
Hedge-fund managers George Soros, John Paulson and Eric Mindich have surmised as much, judging by the massive stakes they held in SPDR Gold Trust ETF(GLD 130.44, +0.06, +0.05%), the leading exchange-traded gold fund and the world’s second-largest ETF with assets of almost $58 billion versus about $40 billion a year ago. The three hedge-fund titans alone controlled [...]