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China Loses All Control, Spends 600 Billion Yuan On Plunge Protection In August, Tightens Capital Controls

September 8, 2015

China Loses All Control, Spends 600 Billion Yuan On Plunge Protection In August, Tightens Capital Controls

Back on July 20, Caijing reporter Wang Xiaolu suggested that China Securities Finance – the state-owned plunge protection vehicle – may be set to exit the market. That sent futures plunging and ultimately led to Mr. Wang’s arrest late last month. Under duress, Wang would later “admit” that he “shouldn’t have released a report with a major negative impact on the market at such a sensitive time.”

Of course Wang wasn’t the last person to speculate about how long China would be willing to spend billions propping up the market, and indeed it certainly seems as though Beijing tried to scale back the manipulation two weeks ago only to see the SHCOMP crash 8%, a move which promptly triggered a global rout of epic proportions. One additional 8% decline and a dual policy rate cut later, and CSF was back in the market desperately trying to arrest the inexorable slide ahead of Xi Jinping’s lavish military parade on September 3.

So in case anyone still harbored any doubts about the degree to which China most certainly has not wound down the plunge protection effort, Goldman has updated its analysis on the “national team’s” efforts on the way to concluding that China spent an additional CNY600 billion propping up the market in August.

Here’s Goldman:

In our note: China musings: How much has the government bought in the market? (Aug 5), we estimated potential government purchases in the stock market based on: (1) our top-down liquidity model; and (2) bottom-up analysis on fund flow changes in key investment channels based on public information released by relevant media sources.  

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