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What's going on with China's stock market? | Financial Post

China’s stocks look to be falling back down to reality.After an epic rally that saw the Shanghai Composite index climb more than 40% this year and the tech-heavy Shenzhen Composite rise a world-leading 90%, a correction — or maybe worse — looks to be in the works.Last week both indices lost more than 10%, falling solidly into correction territory. But […]

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 […]

China's stock market fell hard this week—really hard – Quartz

The Shanghai Composite and Shenzhen A Share stock markets had bad weeks. Really bad weeks. Both lost more than 10% of their market value, and each fell about 6% in Friday’s trading alone. The catalyst for this week’s volatility? Queaziness from abroad (paywall).Bloomberg had a prescient story about the Chinese equity bubble two days ago (if you ignore that bubble […]

China's stock market tops $10 trillion in value | Asia Times

MSCI? We don’t need no friggin MSCI.
The decision by MSCI, the giant indexing company, to not include Chinese mainland A-shares in its emerging-market benchmark last Tuesday had little effect on the market. Neither did the huge outflows by foreign investors.
The Shanghai Composite Index climbed 2.9% last week to its highest level since January 2008.  It also pushed the Chinese stock […]

China's recent stock market rally driven by uneducated investors …

Two-thirds of new investors in China’s recent stock market rally didn’t finish high school according to economists at Bloomberg.The Shanghai Composite Index, arguably the country’s most important stock market, has been on a roll since mid-2014 and shows no sign of stopping. This has puzzled economists given that China’s economy has of late shown some serious signs of weakness.On Friday, […]

Chinese Stocks Crash Most Since Feb 2007, Futures Limit-Down …

UPDATE:*SHANGHAI COMPOSITE HEADS FOR BIGGEST LOSS SINCE FEBRUARY 2007
*CHINA CSI 300 INDEX FUTURES FALL BY 10% LIMIT
* * *Who could have seen this coming?Having tried and failed once to stem the speculative frenzy in Chinese stocks, regulators took more direct action tonight and suspended three of the biggest securities firms from adding margin-finance and securities lending accounts for three months […]

The Current Hangover In China's Stock Market Is … – Business Insider

Ineichen Research & Management AGThe chart above, taken from the latest presentation by Alexander Ineichen at Ineichen Research & Management, shows the path of various stock markets following historic bubbles and crashes.Believe it or not, one of the worst stock market recoveries in history — worse, for example, than that of U.S. stocks in the wake of the 1929 crash, […]