Thursday, July 9, 2015

China bars 'big' shareholders from selling their stocks

China's market regulator has barred major shareholders and executives of listed companies from selling their shares for the next six months, it said in a statement, the latest government action to stem a slide in the markets.

China's benchmark Shanghai stock index was down 3.7 percent on Thursday morning, extending losses from a day earlier, despite more government moves to avert a market collapse.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 129.94 points to 3,377.25. The Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, slid 0.74 percent, or 13.91 points, to 1,870.54.

Japan's Nikkei 225 is also down just over two percent, but the Hong Kong's Hang Seng is up by 0.61 percent.

Taiwan shares fell sharply in early trade as fears of a meltdown in China's stock markets triggered another bout of selling.

As of 0103 GMT, Taiwan's main TAIEX index was down 2 percent, following heavy losses in the previous session.

"The market is still uncertain, but it's much better than previous days," Qian Qimin, an analyst from Shenyin Wanguo Securities, told AFP news agency.

The move aimed to "maintain stability of the capital market and earnestly protect investors' legal rights", the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said on its verified microblog late on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the Shanghai Composite closed down 5.9 percent. China's two oil giants were among the biggest losers in Shanghai. PetroChina slumped 9.07 percent to 12.33 yuan while Sinopec fell by its 10 percent daily limit to 6.72 yuan.

There were also heavy losses in Asia's other top markets. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell 5.8 percent - its biggest drop since the global financial crisis in 2008.

And the sell-off also spread to Japan, where the Nikkei 225 dropped by just over three percent on Wednesday.

Since mid-June, the Chinese stock market has lost almost a third of its value - a loss of $3.2 trillion.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

9/7/15
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2 comments:

  1. China’s tumbling stock market showed signs of seizing up Wednesday as companies scrambled to escape the rout by having their shares suspended and indexes plunged after the securities regulator warned of “panic sentiment” gripping investors...

    Beijing, which has struggled for more than a week to bend the market to its will, unveiled yet another battery of measures to arrest the sell-off, and the People’s Bank of China said it would step up support to brokerages enlisted to prop up shares.

    The CSI300 index of the largest listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed down 6.8 percent, while the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 5.9 percent.

    With nearly half the market on a trading halt and another round of margin calls forcing leveraged investors to dump whatever shares could find a buyer, blue chips that had been supported by stabilization funds earlier in the week bore the brunt.

    “I’ve never seen this kind of slump before. I don’t think anyone has. Liquidity is totally depleted,” said Du Changchun, an analyst at Northeast Securities.........Reuters........dailystar.com.lb

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  2. Τα χρηματιστήρια της Κίνας ανέκαμψαν σήμερα, με τις τιμές των μετοχών να αυξάνονται περίπου 6%, καθώς οι όλο και εντονότερες προσπάθειες των Αρχών της χώρας να σταματήσουν τις μαζικές πωλήσεις φάνηκε τελικά να έχουν κάποιο αποτέλεσμα...

    Το πιο δραστικό μέτρο έως τώρα για τη στήριξη της χρηματιστηριακής αγοράς ήταν η απαγόρευση πώλησης μετοχών από τους μεγάλους μετόχους των εισηγμένων εταιρειών. Η Κινεζική Επιτροπή Κεφαλαιαγοράς ανακοίνωσε αργά το βράδυ της Τετάρτης την απαγόρευση πώλησης μετοχών για το επόμενο εξάμηνο για όσους κατέχουν πάνω από το 5% των μετοχών μίας εταιρείας. Η Επιτροπή, που προειδοποίησε χθες για το «κλίμα πανικού» σε μία αγορά που κυριαρχείται από απλούς μικροεπενδυτές, τόνισε ότι θα αντιμετωπίσει αυστηρά τους μετόχους που θα παραβίαζαν τον περιορισμό αυτό.

    Η κινεζική αστυνομία επισκέφθηκε σήμερα τα γραφεία της Επιτροπής Κεφαλαιαγοράς για να διερευνήσει ενδείξεις «κακόβουλης» κερδοσκοπικής πώλησης μετοχών χωρίς την ύπαρξη των τίτλων τους (short - selling), σύμφωνα με το πρακτορείο ειδήσεων Xinhua.

    Το πρακτορείο ανέφερε ότι ο αναπληρωτής υπουργός Δημόσιας Τάξης Μενγκ Κουιφένγκ ήταν επικεφαλής κλιμακίου που επισκέφθηκε σήμερα το πρωί τα γραφεία της Επιτροπής................http://www.zougla.gr/money/article/xamogela-sta-xrimatistiria-tis-kinas

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