Christopher A. McNally, Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University
Oct 25, 2024
China’s recent monetary stimulus measures initially boosted stock markets but quickly fell short of reviving domestic demand and investment. A "whatever it takes" approach with more forceful fiscal stimulus is essential to reset consumer and investor confidence.
Yu Xiang, Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute
Sep 30, 2024
The rare 50-basis-point interest rate cut is the American central bank’s response to a slowing economy. It will inevitably have far-reaching effects. For China, it is likely to influence capital flows and cause fluctuations in China’s financial markets. It will also put upward pressure on the yuan, which could hurt the country’s exporters.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Jan 25, 2024
Western hedge funds, banks and short sellers are targeting China, Hong Kong, and South Korea. As geopolitics is proliferating in Asia, weaponization is spreading to markets.
Sara Hsu, Visiting Scholar at Fudan University
Nov 05, 2018
As Chinese stock exchanges struggle, their poor performance is a reflection of greater problems for the world’s second largest economy.
CNBC,
Nov 21, 2017
Chinese internet giant Tencent has surpassed Facebook in terms of market value just a day after it became the first Asian technology firm to reach the $500 billion valuation mark.
Sam Beatson, a Senior Economic Analyst
Apr 13, 2017
The performance of Chinese and U.S. shares are rarely compared side-by-side. Together though, they tell the story of the gains that have been available to investors over the past decades, in what are now regarded as the two largest economies—and most capitalised stock markets—in the world.
Jan 11, 2016
China isn’t facing a "cataclysmic" economic slowdown and last week’s market turmoil was more about badly designed stock market circuit breakers, said Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
AP, The Associated Press
Jan 08, 2016
The Asian Development Bank president said Friday he is optimistic China's economy will post healthy growth of 6.7 percent this year despite jitters over the yuan's depreciation and a plunge in Chinese stocks.
Jan 05, 2016
China moved to support its sinking stock market as state-controlled funds bought equities and the securities regulator signaled a selling ban on major investors will remain beyond this week’s expiration date, according to people familiar with the matter.