Rob Schmitz


Articles by Rob Schmitz
Two women check the pictures they took next to the city's charging bull statue -- inspired by a similar one on Wall Street in New York -- in Shanghai on July 20, 2010. Both Shanghai and Hong Kong rose on hopes that Beijing will ease back on tightening measures aimed at slowing the country's breakneck growth, with Shanghai's Composite Index closing up 2.15 percent, or 53.31 points, at a three-week high of 2,528.73, led by property developers.  AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE LOPEZ (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Two women check the pictures they took next to the city's charging bull statue -- inspired by a similar one on Wall Street in New York -- in Shanghai on July 20, 2010. Both Shanghai and Hong Kong rose on hopes that Beijing will ease back on tightening measures aimed at slowing the country's breakneck growth, with Shanghai's Composite Index closing up 2.15 percent, or 53.31 points, at a three-week high of 2,528.73, led by property developers. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE LOPEZ (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)