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China Bans Selling, Plans Massive Liquidity Injection To Prevent Market Crash
China Bans Selling, Plans Massive Liquidity Injection To Prevent Market Crash Judging by the collapse in Chinese futures and the Offshore Yuan over the past week, China’s key cash equity index – The Shanghai Composite – is set to plunge around 6-8% as the market re-opens for the first time since Lunar New Year (and the coronavorus […]
How Are Chinese Stocks Responding to Tariffs With the US and a Slowdown in Asian Growth?
HOW ARE CHINESE STOCKS RESPONDING TO TARIFFS WITH THE US AND A SLOWDOWN IN ASIAN GROWTH? Despite US tariffs, China’s September trade balance with the US reached a record high A number of China’s Asian neighbours have seen a deceleration in growth The Shanghai Composite has fallen more than 50% since 2015, the PE ratio […]
China’s Economic Slump Accelerated In October, Early Indicators Show
China’s Economic Slump Accelerated In October, Early Indicators Show As corporate defaults surge, forcing a desperate PBOC to reverse its deleveraging efforts and threaten more interventions to stave off a more serious retrenchment in growth in the world’s second largest economy, it seems like not a day goes by without another warning sign that China’s […]
Weekly Commentary: Moscovici and the National Team
Weekly Commentary: Moscovici and the National Team From the perspective of monitoring an unfolding global crisis, things turned only more concerning this week. The Shanghai Composite declined to 2,450 in early Friday trading, the low since November 2014 – and down almost 26% y-t-d. Across the globe in Europe, Italian 10-year yields jumped to 3.80% […]
Implosion of Stock Market Double-Bubble in China Hits New Lows, Authorities Busy Elsewhere Keeping China Miracle from Unraveling
Implosion of Stock Market Double-Bubble in China Hits New Lows, Authorities Busy Elsewhere Keeping China Miracle from Unraveling Bigger issues than propping up the stock market beckon. Today, the Shanghai Composite Index dropped another 2.9% to 2,486.42. In the bigger picture, that’s quite an accomplishment: Lowest since November 27, 2014, nearly four years ago Down […]
Oil Markets Tremble As Chinese Stocks Crash
Oil Markets Tremble As Chinese Stocks Crash China’s stock market fell sharply on Thursday, dragged down by a range of concerns that should offer a warning to the broader global economy. The Shanghai Composite Index fell nearly 3 percent on Thursday, falling to its lowest point in nearly four years. The problems in China are […]
Chinese Verbal Intervention In The Market Fails As Stock Rout Accelerates
Chinese Verbal Intervention In The Market Fails As Stock Rout Accelerates This morning, when we reported that the latest flood of margin calls, resulting from $600 billion in shares pledged as collateral for loans and representing a whopping 11% of China’s market cap, sent the Shanghai Composite tumbling 3% to the lowest level since November […]
China Crashes As Flood Of Margin Calls Sparks “Liquidity Crisis”, Panic Selling
China Crashes As Flood Of Margin Calls Sparks “Liquidity Crisis”, Panic Selling The Treasury’s latest semiannual FX report may have spared China the designation of currency manipulator (for now… in a new twist, there was a section dedicated exclusively to China in the Executive Summary, a clear signal from the Treasury that China is the […]
Weekly Commentary: Anbang and China’s Mortgage Bubble
Weekly Commentary: Anbang and China’s Mortgage Bubble The Shanghai Composite traded as high as 3,587 intraday on Monday, January 29th, a more than two-year high. This followed the S&P500’s all-time closing high (2,873) on the previous Friday. On February 9th, the Shanghai Composite traded as low as 3,063, a 14.6% decline from trading highs just […]
How to Manipulate Stocks: Chinese Authorities Step in to Stop the Rout
How to Manipulate Stocks: Chinese Authorities Step in to Stop the Rout For proper effect, the directives were purposefully leaked to the media. The Shanghai Composite Index plunged 10.2% last week, the largest weekly drop in two years, and was down 11.4% since January 26. But it wasn’t just last week that things became unglued. […]
Chinese Stocks Give Up Trump Gains As $1.7 Trillion Source Of Funds Unwinds
Chinese Stocks Give Up Trump Gains As $1.7 Trillion Source Of Funds Unwinds The Chinese and U.S. stock markets are going in opposite directions, as an intensifying crackdown against leverage has slammed the recently ‘stable’ Shanghai Composite over the past week, erasing all post-Trump gains. The relatsionship between the two markets is the weakest since […]
A “Death Spiral” for the Chinese Yuan?
A “Death Spiral” for the Chinese Yuan? The “impossible trinity.” The authorities in China are in a desperate juggling act, trying to keep a growing number of rotting oranges, porcelain plates, burning torches, and explosives in the air all at the same time. But it’s not working very well anymore. Thursday morning, the People’s Bank of […]
What Will China Dump Next, After Treasuries, to Keep Control?
What Will China Dump Next, After Treasuries, to Keep Control? “Practically boundless” future capital outflows. “Beneath all of the financial turbulence there lurks, in my view, a credit crisis; I fear the worst now,” UBS economic adviser George Magnus told Bloomberg TV today. The reform agenda “has stalled,” he said, and “things are looking much bleaker for […]
Stock Market Crash October 2015? 9 Of The 16 Largest Crashes In History Have Come This Month
Stock Market Crash October 2015? 9 Of The 16 Largest Crashes In History Have Come This Month The worst stock market crashes in U.S. history have come during the month of October. There is just something about this time of the year that seems to be conducive to financial panic. For example, on October 28th, […]
China’s Central Bank Chief Admits “The Bubble Has Burst”
China’s Central Bank Chief Admits “The Bubble Has Burst” In a stunningly honest admission from a member of the elite, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China’s central bank, exclaimed multiple times this week to his G-20 colleagues that a bubble in his country had “burst.”While this will come as no surprise to any rational-minded onlooker, the fact […]
