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06.21.17China Shares Get MSCI Nod in Landmark Moment for Beijing
Reuters
U.S. index provider MSCI said on Wednesday Hong Kong time it would add a selection of China's so-called "A" shares to its Emerging Markets Index .MSCIEF after having rejected them for three years running.
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12.13.16China Stocks Drop as Insurers Face Crackdown
Wall Street Journal
China’s top securities regulator has accused some big insurers of behaving like ‘barbarians’
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09.26.16China’s Risk-Loving Mom & Pop Investors Abandon Local Stock Markets for Bitcoin
Quartz
China’s two biggest exchanges account for more than 90% of global trading.
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06.15.16
Building An Icon
China’s economy is still growing. But its ascent is nothing like the period of double-digit growth during the first decade of this century. In the early aughts when the economy was soaring, Shanghai was the place that probably best embodied its...
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01.07.16Why It’s Getting Harder to Understand China
Wall Street Journal
The depreciating yuan is exposing the increasing difficulty in getting a firm reading on economy.
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01.07.16Chinese Stock Plunge Forces a Trading Halt, and Global Markets Shudder
New York Times
The aftershocks carried over to Europe and the United States, where markets fell sharply once again.
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01.04.16China Selloff Sparks Gloomy 2016 Start for Stocks
Reuters
A 7 percent slide in Chinese shares, sparked by weak economic data, rekindled worries over global growth on day one of 2016 trading.
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01.04.16Greece-Sized China Outflows Highlight Policy Maker Challenge
Bloomberg
Investors are rushing money out of China as yuan weakens to lowest point since August.
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11.27.15Top 10 China Dependent Countries
Forbes
A list of the top 10 countries exporting to China and the year-to-date performance of their corresponding exchange traded funds.
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11.27.15China Stocks Hit Hard, Rest of World Shrugs
Reuters
Chinese shares slumped 5 percent on Friday, hit by regulatory and industrial sector worries, but the declines did not carry through to other major equity markets.
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11.13.15Shanghai Stock Exchange Vice Chairman Investigated
Wall Street Journal
China’s anti-corruption campaign pushed further into the financial sector with a government notice Friday that a vice chairman of the stock market regulatory agency is under investigation.
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10.01.15
How China’s Economic Slowdown Will Impact Africa
The tremors in China’s faltering economy are being felt across Africa. Now that China has replaced Europe and the United States as most African countries’ largest trading partner, there is understandable concern that slowing demand in the P.R.C...
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09.08.15China’s Economic Crisis Ripples at Area Colleges
Boston Globe
As of last year, more than 13,000 Chinese students were attending college in Boston, out of a total of 44,000 foreign students in the city.
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09.04.15G-20 Seeks Reassurances that China Plans to Calm Markets
Wall Street Journal
The Group of 20 biggest economies are concerned a stalled Chinese economy could spur further global sell-offs.
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08.26.15
Mapping Fallout From ‘Black Monday’: Who Was Hardest Hit?
August 24, which some have already dubbed “Black Monday,” was not a kind day to global equity markets. The rout began with a massive sell-off in China, where the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plunged 8.49 percent in just one day. Those losses...
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08.25.15China’s Complexity Problem
Project Syndicate
The challenge for Xi Jinping is to prioritize plentiful political will in a way that keeps China on the course of reform and rebalancing.
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08.25.15Who Loses Most from Chaos in China—And Some Possible Silver Linings
Washington Post
The panic may weaken demand for U.S. exports. But that could make some goods cheaper for consumers.
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08.25.15China Cuts Interest Rates Amid Mounting Concerns Over Economy
New York Times
The cut followed a global stock market rout in which China led with a 7.6 pct plunge Tuesday to its lowest level this year.
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08.25.15US, European Markets Bounce Back, China Crisis Continues
Guardian
Dow Jones rises more than 300 points in first 2 minutes after opening following 3 days of market losses that erased close to $3 trillion globally.
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08.25.15
Is the Bloom Off the Rose of China’s Economic Miracle?
On Monday, August 24, the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 8.5 percent, its second such steep fall since late July, and its worst since 2007. On Tuesday, stocks fell an additional 7.6 percent. The steep slide translates into more than $4 trillion in...
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08.24.15Why is China’s Stock Market Falling and How Might it Affect the Global Economy?
Guardian
Concerns about inflation, shares and interest rates raised after ‘Black Monday’ wiped billions off global markets.
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08.24.15Great Fall of China Sinks World Stocks, Dollar
Reuters
A near 9-percent dive in China shares and a sharp drop in the dollar and major commodities sent investors rushing for the exit.
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08.21.15China Shares Brush New Low Since Depth of Selloff
Wall Street Journal
Shanghai Composite closes down 4.3%, a fraction above July 8 low.
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07.29.15
Can Xi Jinping Turn China’s Economy Around?
On Monday, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 percent, erasing all of the gains it had made in an extraordinary run-up this year. The drop was the second 8.5 percent drop in recent weeks. The first such drop (the occasion for the Conversation...
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07.16.15Why China’s Sock Market Bubble Was Always Bound to Burst
Guardian
The sudden collapse of the nation’s share boom left tens of millions of investors in shock. But a massive government intervention to prop up the market has laid bare the contradictions of a capitalist China.
Viewpoint
07.12.15
Making Sense of China’s Market Mess
Nearly two years ago China’s Communist Party released a major economic reform blueprint, whose signature phrase was that market forces would be given a “decisive role” in resource allocation. That Third Plenum Decision and other policy...
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07.07.15China Stocks Fall in Defiance of Beijing’s Support Efforts
Financial Times
Another 173 firms listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen announced trading suspensions after the market closed on Tuesday, bringing the total to around 940.
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07.06.15China Stocks Rise as Beijing’s Emergency Moves Brings Some Relief
Reuters
Support measures unleashed by Beijing brought some relief to a market after headlong slide over three weeks.
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06.19.15Chinese Stocks Drop 10% From Peak
Bloomberg
China’s benchmark stock index tumbled from this year’s peak amid growing concern that the country’s longest-ever bull market has propelled valuations to unsustainable levels.
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06.15.15China’s Unsettling Stock Market Boom
New York Times
After a peak in October 2007, prices fell about 70 percent over 12 months. This time, the risks are bigger and broader.
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06.09.15The $6.5 Trillion China Rally That’s Making Stock-Market History
Bloomberg
The sum is the value created in just 12 months of trading on Chinese stock exchanges, a rally some say has gone too far.
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05.29.15
Is the Shanghai Stock Market Bubble Finally Bursting?
A customer strolls into a bookstore, goes the popular Chinese joke, and tells the salesperson: “I’m looking for a book with no killers, but much bloodshed; with no love, but great regret; with no spies, but constant paranoia. Can you make a...
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05.25.15Chinese Stocks Surge Most Since 2008 for World’s Biggest Rally
Bloomberg
Rally buoyed by optimism around government plans to boost foreign access to the nation’s markets.
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04.14.15China’s Booming Stockmarket — The Bubble Question
Economist
Whereas China’s growth has drifted steadily lower, its share indices have doubled in value.
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08.04.14In Twist, China Stock Market is Haven Amid Storm
USA Today
When you think of safe-haven investments, Chinese stocks don’t normally come to mind. But shares listed in Shanghai have been soaring recently at a time when most stock markets around the globe have been sliding.
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10.21.13China’s Poly Culture Plans Hong Kong I.P.O.
Variety
State-owned enterprise Poly Culture, one of China’s leading auction, cultural and film investors, previously planned to list its shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, but dropped them earlier this year due to regulatory uncertainty.&...
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02.04.13
Lights, Camera, Pending IPOs for Filmmakers
The cameras could be rolling soon for long-anticipated stock listings by the nation’s largest movie producer and foreign flick importer China Film Group, as well as a smaller but ambitious rival, Shanghai Film Group.The state-owned companies’ names...
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06.05.12What Happened on the Shanghai Stock Exchange?
New Yorker
China experienced a bizarre numerological happening this week. The Shanghai Composite Index started yesterday morning at 2346.98, which, when read from right to left, shares an uncanny similarity to yesterday’s highly sensitive anniversary: twenty-...
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06.01.11
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: Mapping and Gap Analysis for Shanghai Stock Exchange
World Bank
In recent years the number of companies releasing sustainability reports has continued to increase on a global level as well as in China specifically. In China, the number of sustainability reports reached over 700 in 2010. There is a widely...
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12.14.92
China Plays the Market
from Nation
With the Chinese stock market in turmoil earlier this month, Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, wrote about the dramatic crash for The Guardian: “Why China’s Stock Market Bubble Was Always Bound To Burst.”...