China stock market

21 Feb 2013

The mainland's A shares are still among the most attractive in Asia-Pacific even after a strong rebound over the past three months, given their low valuations and big re-rating potential following...

Mainland markets set for strong start to new year

18 Feb 2013

Backed by signs of a solid economic recovery, stocks in the financial, infrastructure and agricultural sectors are likely to outperform the market ahead of the annual meetings of the legislature...

Chinese equity reforms takes one step forward, one step back

5 Feb 2013

China’s market reformers struggle against the perception that Chinese stock markets are driven by policy speculation instead of fundamentals, but the role administrative edicts played in the...

Shanghai stocks rise to 6-month high on news of reform

15 Jan 2013

Mainland stocks rose to a six-month high yesterday after the market regulator said it would lift the quota for overseas investors investing in A shares by 10 times.

Futures broker expected to mark restart of mainland IPO market

14 Jan 2013

Beijing will give priority to the first share listing application from a home-grown futures brokerage when it reopens the initial public offering market, in a further sign of the regulators'...

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Talk of reform fails to convince B-share investors

Davis Zhang, a long-term victim of the collapse of the mainland's hard-currency B-share market, dismisses reports that the market regulator plans to bail out investors as more empty promises.

Cyclically bullish on China's market but a structural bear

Acouple of days ago, Monitor peered into its crystal ball and argued that the month-old rally in mainland stock markets looks set to continue.

The prediction was based on a look at the...

Hard to take the Economic Freedom index seriously

Hong Kong was yesterday ranked the world's freest economy in the Index of Economic Freedom, which is put out by the Heritage Foundation in partnership with The Wall Street Journal. It's been...

LAI SEE HOWARD WINN

Green is good, as long as taxes are not in the red

It's always interesting and sometimes surprising to see what drives policy in Hong Kong. Take the story in yesterdays' SCMP about car dealers asking the government for more time to clear their...

STOCK MARKETS

Rebound hopes buoy Shanghai stock index

The Shanghai Composite Index yesterday hit its highest level since June, led by health care and financial firms, on speculation that a rebounding mainland economy will help end a three-year bear...

EQUITIES

Tiny gains disappoint mainland investors

Mainland stocks yesterday failed to chalk up handsome gains on their first trading day of 2013, dampening investors' hopes that shares would follow a rally on overseas bourses which occurred...