Anyone who reads my blog is already likely to know the story. Until the market peaked on June 12, with the Shanghai Composite at 5,178, China had experienced a stock market boom that saw the Shanghai index rising in what seemed like a straight line by more than 135% in one year. The boom seemed almost inexplicable from a fundamental […]
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SHANGHAI — China’s tumbling stock market showed signs of seizing up on Wednesday, as companies scrambled to escape the rout by having their shares suspended and indexes plunged after the securities regulator warned of “panic sentiment” gripping investors.Beijing, which has struggled for more than a week to bend the market to its will, unveiled yet another battery of measures to […]
ReutersAn investor stands in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage in Shanghai December 31, 2014.See AlsoDevelopers in China are giving away Porsches to sell housesChina’s 60 million ‘left-behind’ children highlight the country’s devastating povertyUS officials are preparing to confront China over some ‘very problematic’ issuesOne of China’s top stock market regulators has been arrested.The head […]
People in the trading hall of a stock and securities exchange company in downtown Shanghai China. Photo by Remko Tanis CC: AT-SA-NCAfter a more than year-long freeze on new initial public offerings (IPO) while Chinese authorities reformed the country’s stock market to give more power to investors, companies were once again allowed to toss their hat into the publicly traded […]
