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The stock market in Shanghai has been on a tear in recent months, but it took a hard tumble on Thursday. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 6.5 percent in one day as over-leveraged investors fled the feverish market conditions, the Wall Street Journal reported. The index is up about 134 percent over one year ago.Does the Chinese stock market have […]
“If you want to see capitalism in action, go to Hong Kong.” ~ Milton FriedmanHong Kong has come a long way. As a British colony, it was described as a “barren rock” by former British foreign secretary and prime minister Lord Palmerston. Today, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the fourth-largest in the world. It will likely soon be the […]
Although China’s economy has been leading the world in annualized growth since the days that mobile phones had retractable antennas, there have always been some aspects of the country’s commercial and financial system that loudly broadcast the underlying illogic of a Communist Party’s firm control of burgeoning capitalism. China’s stock markets were one such venue where things just didn’t add […]
Why China’s stock market surge is too powerful to ignoreJONATHAN SHAPIROLast updated Mon Apr 13 03:09:31 UTC 2015
ChinaFotoPressChina’s stock market is up 20 per cent this month, 30 per cent for the year and almost 100 per cent over 12 months.
China’s stock market is on fire. The Shanghai Stock Market Index is up 20 per cent just this month, 30 […]
Mainland investors piled into the city’s stocks via the through train programme, with turnover hitting a record HK$21 billion. Photo: Dickson LeeThe Hong Kong stock market opened high on Thursday morning with a 5 per cent rise in the Hang Seng Index a day after it was swamped by a wave of mainland Chinese money that helped drive trading to a record […]
Brokers balked at a stock exchange study that could lead to the introduction of circuit breakers to protect against flash trading of stocks – which can send shares gyrating wildly – saying Hong Kong has adequate suspension rules in place already.Securities and Futures Commission executive director Keith Lui told the South China Morning Post last week that the SFC supports […]
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[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Jayant Bhandari, writing from India. It is exerpted from this week’s TDV Dispatch, which you can subscribe to here.] I have devoted the last 8 years analyzing companies in the junior resource sector. I still […]
