China Crash, Greece Collapse, Harbingers of Stock Market Apocalypse Forecast 2015?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jul 13, 2015 – 03:05 AM GMTBy: Nadeem_WalayatWhilst all eyes in the West were on Greece as its marxist Syriza government played game of thrones with the Greek peoples lives as they black mailed the Eurozone, the chinese stock market crashed, collapsing by over $2 trillion […]
Submitted by Jared “The 10th Man” Dillian via MauldinEconomics.com,We are about a week into the Greek non-crisis, and nothing especially scary has happened. Stocks opened up lower a couple of times, and there was one wild trading day in EURUSD, but everything is essentially unchanged. Which surprised everyone. Including me, a little.I used to be a plunger. Loved shorting stuff. […]
‘International investors have called the recovery a dead cat bounce, and the leadership’s reputation with its own people has suffered a serious blow.’ Photograph: Imaginechina/Corbis
The Chinese stock market crash came to a juddering halt yesterday, after a nailbiting three weeks that left investors $3tn poorer. The halt came after an escalating series of interventions that culminated in the suspension of […]
Investors look through stock information at a securities firm in Haikou, Hainan province, on Friday. Photograph: Zhao Yingquan/Xinhua Press/Corbis
As the east coast of China was put on high alert for the approach of super-typhoon Chan-hom, it was not clear whether the financial storm that has rocked the country’s stock markets had blown itself out.Share prices rebounded to record their best […]
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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 […]
A record $13 billion (£8.4 billion) went into Chinese equity funds in the last week, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as China’s government scrambles to put a floor under tanking stocks.A BAML Global Research note sent to clients Thursday shows $25 billion (£16 billion) went into stocks globally last week, the biggest inflow since December 2014. More than half of the worldwide total was […]
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 […]
China is taking a one-two punch to the gut as the nation’s previously high-flying economy begins to weaken. First, the stock market there is suddenly collapsing after a major boom. Then just as things are looking bad, the auto industry posted its first sales drop in over two years.According to Bloomberg, citing figures from the China Passenger Car Association, vehicles […]
China’s mightiest have taken a hard hit amid the recent stock market mayhem, including celebrities Vickie Zhao, Zhang Ziyi and Fan Bingbing, who lost billions in profits.Our favorite empress Fan Bingbing, who made a profit of 200 million RMB from her investment in Shenzhen-listed Talent Television Film earlier this year, had120 million RMB shaved off her portfolio, while Grandmasters actress […]
Stock-market investing in Britain is done mainly by professionals such as fund managers, folks trusted with other people’s money because of their increased understanding of investing. It’s the same way in the US, though Americans are more likely than Brits to maintain a small portfolio of stocks in which they have a personal interest.But millions of ordinary citizens in China […]
