
“Chinese stocks tumbled, sending the benchmark index into a bear market, as signs of an exodus by leveraged investors overshadowed the central bank’s effort to revive confidence with an interest-rate cut. The retreat marks an end to the nation’s longest-ever bull market, a rally that’s lured record numbers of individual investors and convinced traders to bet an unprecedented amount of borrowed money on further gains. Zhang Gang, a strategist at Central China Securities strategist in Shanghai, called Monday’s losses ‘panic selling’ that will likely continue as margin investors are forced to liquidate their holdings and the recent selloff spurs more mutual fund redemptions.”
Related posts:
China shuts down $88 million mocked museum with ‘fake’ national treasures
Japan Returns to Atomic Club With Restart Amid Public Opposition
Cab drivers irate as ban against livery app reversed
Connecticut becomes first state to pass legislation requiring genetically modified (GM) food labelin...
U.S. denies missile test in the Mediterranean linked to Syria
Army: 60 hospitalizations blamed on synthetic vaping oils
NYC welfare food is shipped in barrels to the Dominican Republic - then sold on the black market
Hong Kong to get world's second bitcoin ATM
Hedge Funds Suffer First Quarterly Net Outflows in 4 Years
Police corporal jailed after assaulting, illegally arresting pedestrian
Police Charge Mother With Murder After 5-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shoots Self
The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart
Aereo could bring down broadcast TV
ECB cuts rates to new low of 0.25%, euro sinks
U.S. Regulators Mull Yanking Access To USD As Punishment For Banks