{"id":4629,"date":"2015-01-19T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2015-01-19T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:31:26","slug":"china-shares-plunge-europe-eyes-crunch-ecb-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"China shares plunge, Europe eyes crunch ECB meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/19\/us-markets-global-idUSKBN0KR10W20150119\" target=\"_blank\">China shares plunge, Europe eyes crunch ECB meeting<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Chinese shares chalked up their biggest one-day slide in nearly seven years on Monday after regulators there took steps to rein in speculative lending, while investors everywhere braced for what is shaping up to be a critical week in the\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1stXLRA\" rel=\"nofollow\">euro\u00a0zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations are high that the European Central Bank will unveil a bond-buying stimulus package at a crunch policy meeting on Thursday, while the anti-bailout party Syriza maintains a lead in the polls going into Greece&#8217;s general election on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Investors focused more on the anticipated quantitative easing, or &#8216;QE&#8217;, from the ECB than the plunge in Chinese shares or jitters over the Greek vote &#8211; some\u00a0euro zone\u00a0government bond yields hit new lows and German stocks reached a new high.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. holiday also made for relatively thin conditions at the start of a week in which investors continue to digest the fallout of the Swiss National Bank&#8217;s shock decision last week to scrap the franc&#8217;s exchange rate cap and that will be marked by a barrage of major data from\u00a0China\u00a0and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China shares plunge, Europe eyes crunch ECB meeting (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese shares chalked up their biggest one-day slide in nearly seven years on Monday after regulators there took steps to rein in speculative lending, while investors everywhere braced for what is shaping up to be a critical week in the\u00a0euro\u00a0zone. Expectations are high that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[130,233,281,282,661,662,2731],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-china","tag-ecb","tag-europe","tag-european-central-bank","tag-qe","tag-quantitative-easing","tag-stock-market-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}