Computer glitch shuts down trading on New York Stock ExchangePublished time: July 08, 2015 15:50Edited time: July 08, 2015 17:32Get short URLReuters / Brendan McDermidTagsAccident, Big deal, Corporate news, FBI, Investment, Markets, USATrading on the New York Stock Exchange floor was halted shortly after 11:30 am local time Wednesday, with all screens displaying a “No quotation” message, according to eyewitnesses.“We’re […]
REUTERS/Laszlo BaloghThe men’s 3m springboard preliminary diving competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.Chinese stock markets are in complete collapse right now, with the main Shanghai Composite index losing 30% of its value in just the past three weeks. The turmoil is now starting to spread to other Asian markets and global commodities markets.The reason behind the crash is this: […]
The Chinese stock market meltdown is accelerating despite government intervention and is blowing back to commodities markets, including copper and oil, which are trading down based on concern that the stock market plunge is a harbinger of even more economic weakness. The Financial Times gives a snapshot of today’s downdraft:
China’s central bank stepped up state support for sinking stocks on […]
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 […]
Gavyn Davies is a macroeconomist who is now chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management and co-founder of Prisma Capital Partners. He was the head of the global economics department at Goldman Sachs from 1987-2001, and was chairman of the BBC from 2001-2004.He has also served as an economic policy adviser in No 10 Downing Street, an external adviser to the British […]
AP ImagesFour members of the House of Morgan stand on a balcony outside the Senate Banking Committee room just before the committee resumed its investigation into the banking institution’s practices, May 31, 1933, in Washington.While attention is focused on Greece, China is having a serious market meltdown.After exploding earlier in the year because of deregulation, China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite has […]
The overheated Shanghai and Shenzhen markets have lost 29 and 32 per cent respectively over the past three weeks following 7-year highs reached on June 12.Instead of welcoming a much needed correction, Chinese brokerages and the Bank of China agreed to prop up the market.Stimulus Short-LivedThe stimulus act has failed already. The South China Morning Post reports Chinese Shares Close […]
The Chinese stock market: officially sanctioned prices? Illustration: David Simonds/The Observer
As Greece holds a referendum that may create more uncertainties than it solves, are we looking in the wrong place for a financial crisis? In China, the authorities are in a fine sweat about a more traditional financial conundrum: a bubble in the stock market. How do you deflate it […]
BEIJING (AP) — More than two dozen companies in China are postponing initial public offerings and security companies are pledging more than $19 billion for a fund to stabilize the country’s free-falling stock market.The 28 companies, which had obtained permission from China’s securities watchdog for IPOs planned in Shanghai and Shenzhen, said they would postpone them due to recent market […]
