{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_w53wv4vpaeut2kfmuiyq","title":"Chinese firms trail global peers on profits, but AI power boom offers bright spot: Natixis","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/chinese-firms-trail-global-peers-on-profits-but-ai-power-boom-offers-w53wv4vpae","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_w53wv4vpaeut2kfmuiyq","seq":828212,"kind":"article","title":"Chinese firms trail global peers on profits, but AI power boom offers bright spot: Natixis","url":"https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3369282/chinese-firms-trail-global-peers-profits-ai-power-boom-offers-bright-spot-natixis","summary":"China’s corporate sector remains considerably weaker than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, but the country is emerging as a key beneficiary of the global artificial intelligence boom thanks to its ample power capacity, according to a Natixis survey of thousands of firms and a separate research report. Profit margins at Chinese firms had stabilised at about 4.5 per cent for the first half of 2026, but remained well below the nearly 9 per cent recorded by their global…","published":"2026-09-30T05:00:10Z","seen":"2026-09-30T05:14:55Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-scmp-com-62b166","name":"scmp.com","domain":"scmp.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q1198574","name":"South China Morning Post","type":"newspaper","country":"CN","designations":["daily newspaper","online newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-scmp-com-62b166","topics":["asia"],"authors":["author","Tim Yuen Lingk"],"entities":[{"id":"Q571156","name":"Natixis","type":"org"}],"image":"https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1280x720/public/d8/images/canvas/2026/09/30/4fe46d50-19c7-420b-927e-93c5cc5c18ce_f066e881.jpg?itok=IiiqQSNq&v=1790740688","mentions":3,"story":"st_w53wv4vpaeut2kfmuiyq","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.9100000262260437,"sentiment":"positive","tone":0.5400000214576721,"political":0.05999999865889549}]}