Shanghai Stock Market Finally Corrects
About 2 weeks ago, I mentioned that the Shanghai Stock market was likely to correct.
Well today is the 3rd straight day that the Shagnhai market has traded down. So far its down 20% from its peak but its still up 28% for the year.
The Chinese government thought that the markets were getting ahead of themselves and had implemented a large tax hike to help cool down the “irrational exuberance”. Seems like they got what they wanted and should be quite pleased.
When the markets dropped 8.8% on 27th February, it triggered a drop in global markets. This time though, its all alone.
Apparently, 1000 out of the 1,400 class-A stocks dropped the daily maximum allowed 10%! If they didn’t have controls in place to limit the drop, they might have dropped a lot more. Because of this, I think the market might continue to drop for a few more days.
China economy is unlikely to suffer because of this market correction because its dependent on exports and not financial markets.
Hopefully it’ll create some good investment opportunities!
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June 5th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I am very leary of stocks traded on the Shanghai exchange. Proper financial reporting seems optional to a lot of the companies listed. Perhaps this is an opportunity to really dig deeper into a lot of these companies and buy on fundamentals and not momentum.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
except for PTR, i don’t own any chinese stocks.
if i really had to, i’d buy CHN (china fund) but there are many things I’d buy first. (like AAV)