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Happy Holiday – 2015 at the Halfway Point

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 […]

China's college students embrace stock trading, thanks to money …

While many of his peers get their sense of achievement from online video games, Li Shengyao, a 21-year-old sophomore at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, gets it from playing the stock market. He describes himself as a short-term trader who “can’t stop my fingers from making orders.”Li spends at least three hours every night dissecting day-trading activity and […]

Woman jumps to her death in Shanghai's IAPM mall after stock …

A woman jumped to her death inside Shanghai’s IAPM mall this morning, and while the case is still under investigation, it’s been speculated that the apparent suicide was related to China’s volatile stock market taking another dive.Shanghai Composite, China’s biggest stock, dropped five percent within just an hour and reached a three month low earlier today.Click image for uncensored photo.Another […]

Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China's Stock Market | naked …

By Nick Cunningham, a Washington DC-based writer on energy and environmental issues. You can follow him on twitter at @nickcunningham1. Originally published at OilPriceOil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece […]

One dangerous idea is keeping the Chinese stock market from …

ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]

One dangerous idea is keeping the Chinese stock market

ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]

Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China's Stock Market | OilPrice …

Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece – but one has not yet percolated through the markets just yet: the possibility of economic cracks in China, the largest oil importer […]

Chinese stocks crash into a bear market – Business Insider

China’s stocks crashed 3.3% to enter bear market territory. Monday’s loss has the Shanghai Composite down 22% from its June 12 high. Google Finance2015 Shanghai Composite action.Monday’s session was particularly volatile as stocks opened to a gain of 2.5% after the People’s Bank of China cut its key lending rate 25 basis points to 4.85% on Saturday. However, heavy selling developed […]

China's stock market dream could bring about its … – Business Insider

ReutersChina’s ruling Communist Party has made it clear that it has a mortal enemy: social unrest.Separately, it has also made it clear that the Chinese people should be heavily invested in the stock market.And so, dutifully, the Chinese people have done just that, spurring the longest bull market in the country’s history — the glorious 100% rally of the Shanghai […]

China's stock market is about to collapse – Hang The Bankers

It’s been an ugly week for Chinese equities, but today’s performance is a whole other level of ugly:
Today marked the fourth largest decline of the Shanghai Composite in two decades.We’ve discussed the insane valuations on the Shanghai and Shenzen stock-exchange before. As our regular readers will know, today’s fireworks have been a long time in the making.Today the benchmark Shanghai Composite plunged 6.4%.  That brings […]