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The boom and crash of the Chinese stock market has been one of the biggest stories in finance this year.The Shanghai Composite exploded 155% from its 52-week low to its 52-week high 5,178 in June. From there it crashed 32% to 3,507 on Wednesday.It’s trajectory, is peppered with manic milestones and unprecedented government intervention. The latter helped the market […]
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.China’s sell-off will be felt far beyond its see-sawing stock markets. The month-long slide in share prices has called into question the country’s recent conversion to market dogma, while the state’s floundering response has exposed the limits of its grip on China’s financial system. Broader reforms may suffer.Some […]
Wednesday was a rough day for tech: One of the nation’s biggest airlines, its oldest stock exchange and its most prominent business newspaper all suffered technology problems that upended service.After the New York Stock Exchange halted trading, the seriousness of the disruptions led President Barack Obama into a briefing session with his homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, and Chief of […]
Unlike most other stock markets, where investors are mostly institutional investors, in China, 80% of investors are small retail investors. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
China’s stock exchange regulator has imposed severe limits on stock market selling, having earlier warned of panic in the market as a range of recent government measures failed to prevent stocks plummeting a further 6%.After 10 minutes of […]
REUTERS/China NewsphotoThe Shanghai Composite Index has fallen by 27% in less than a month — a huge reversal from the 117% gain over the past eight months. And this splashy volatility has everyone worried about the precipitating negative effects on the Chinese economy.But the actual effect may be less than analysts are expecting:”The stock market wealth effect in China is smaller […]
A currency trader walks by a screen showing the Korea composite stock price index at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul. Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP
Share prices were sent tumbling across the Asia-Pacific on Monday after Greece’s resounding no vote in the weekend’s bailout referendum raised fears it could be forced to exit the eurozone.While significant losses had not descended into […]
The first half of 2015 has come and gone, and the long-running global bull market has significantly faltered.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.4% through the first six months of 2015, the first time the index has lost ground in that time frame since 2010. The S&P 500 eked out a 0.2% gain in the first half, its smallest H1 […]
An electronic display in Shanghai’s business district shows the performance of China’a two main stock market indices. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters
Chinese stock markets plunged on Friday as investors rushed to sell over fears that frenzied buying in recent months had sent share prices to unsustainable levels.The Shanghai composite index, which reached a post-crash record of 5,166 earlier this month, has since […]
An electronic display in Shanghai’s business district shows the performance of China’a two main stock market indices. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters
Chinese stock markets plunged on Friday as investors rushed to sell over fears that frenzied buying in recent months had sent share prices to unsustainable levels.The Shanghai composite index, which reached a post-crash record of 5,166 earlier this month, has since […]
This morning I was thinking about writing this week’s column.I had to make a quick stop in Walmart. As I was walking through the parking lot, someone made a comment to me about their concerns that the stock market was about to start a correction. I was not sure why they told me this concern until the man told me […]
