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European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
July 8th, 2015
A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we ...
China Bans Stock Sales by Major Shareholders for Six Months
July 8th, 2015
China’s securities regulator banned major shareholders, corporate executives and directors from selling stakes in listed companies for six months, its latest effort to stop the nation’s $3.5 trillion stock-market rout. Investors with stakes exceeding 5 percent must maintain their ...
China Freezes Trading in 1,300 Companies, Locking Up 40% of Market Cap
July 8th, 2015
A wave of Chinese companies halted trading in their shares and regulators unveiled new measures to prop up the value of small-cap stocks in the latest attempts to stem a rout that’s wiped more than $3.5 trillion of value. ...
Chinese shares fall another 8% despite more measures
July 8th, 2015
Mainland Chinese shares continued to slide on Wednesday, falling more than 8% on opening. The slump came despite more moves by China’s regulators to try and stabilise the recently volatile market. The Shanghai Composite had recovered some losses by ...
Over 20% of listed China stocks now in trading halt
July 7th, 2015
Amid a heavy market selloff, 203 mainland-China-traded companies announced separately Tuesday that trading in their shares had been suspended. This brought the total number of shares in trading halt over the past seven days to 651, or about 23% ...
Asia shares win reprieve but Greece, China concerns limit gains
July 7th, 2015
Asian stocks won a reprieve on Tuesday after sharp falls the previous day but investors remained on edge amid uncertainty over Greece‘s position in the euro and volatility in mainland Chinese equity markets. Chinese shares dropped almost two percent ...
China stocks volatile after Beijing acts to avoid crash
July 6th, 2015
China stocks remained volatile on Monday, despite a series of dramatic steps by officials over the weekend designed to support markets. After opening with a gain of roughly 7%, the benchmark Shanghai Composite was trading 2.2% higher on Monday. ...
Stocks, euro staggered by Greece; China rescue in doubt
July 6th, 2015
Asian stocks hit a six-month trough and the euro stumbled on Monday after a Greek vote against austerity measures endangered its future in the single currency and raised the risk of a full-blown crisis in the euro zone. A ...
China stocks plunge as market rout deepens
July 3rd, 2015
China‘s main stock benchmark plunged more than 5 percent Friday as government stabilizing measures failed to reassure panicky investors while other Asian indexes fell ahead of Greece‘s weekend austerity referendum. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index in mainland China ...
Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China’s Stock Market
July 1st, 2015
Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece – but one has not ...
