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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Country Garden shares jump after Chinese developer strikes debt deal

People pass the Country Garden Community in Fuyang city, East China's Anhui province
People pass the Country Garden Community in Fuyang, China. The company was China’s largest property developer last year. Photograph: Costfoto/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

The share price of the ailing Chinese developer Country Garden has jumped by as much as a fifth after its creditors agreed a delay on debt repayments, offering some respite from the country’s crisis-hit property market.

The company agreed over the weekend to extend the payment dates on a 3.9bn yuan (£430m) private bond, to the relief of investors who had thought it would default on payments due on Saturday. Country Garden will instead have three years to repay the debt, after it won a narrow vote with the backing of 56% of its creditors, Reuters reported.

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