Chinese stocks posted gains on Friday as market sentiment was boosted by a strong transportation sector. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.43 percent to close at 3,627.91 points. The smaller Shenzhen index gained 0.37 percent ...
Tags: Shares, Transportation Sector
Chinese stocks tumbled for the second straight session Thursday led by brokerages and the coal sector. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.65 percent to close at 3,612.49 points. The Shenzhen index lost 0.58 percent to finish ...
Tags: Shares, Brokerages
Chinese stocks and economic growth have long had little to do with each other. Between 2010 and early 2014, when China boasted the world's fastest-growing economy, its stockmarket was consistently among the world's worst performers. Since ...
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Chinese mainland stocks declined as the country's leader hints at an economic 11-year-low growth target. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell by 0.95 percent or 31.06 points to 3,248.48 points on Thursday. The Shenzhen Component ...
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Chinese stocks opened higher on Thursday morning, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 2.43 percent, or 77.09 points, to open at 3,251.21. The Shenzhen Component Index opened at 11,367.14, up 2.25 percent, or 250.59 points. ...
Tags: China Stocks, RRR Cut
Billions of dollars are flowing into Hong Kong's Yuan-denominated exchange-traded funds as offshore investors rally behind China's undervalued stocks, Reuters reported, citing data from researcher Morningstar. As a scheme to allow more ...
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
High ethylene prices in Asia have been keeping margins of most ethylene derivatives in the red, forcing some MEG and polyethylene makers to consider trimming operation rates or closing entire production lines, sources said this week. In ...
ICE Cotton gained over 4 cents for the week on the back of spec buying, improved technicals and rising open interest, and the continued rawdown of US cotton stocks through strong export sales (223k overall). Although domestic basis levels ...
Tags: Cotton Trends, Textile
Chinese shares fell on Thursday after rising more than one percent in the previous session, led by 4G related shares, as investors took profits after 4G licenses were issued. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index went down 0.21 percent, ...
Tags: 4G industry, medical equipment
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.6 percent year on year in August, down from 2.7 percent in July, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. The country's consumer inflation has stayed ...
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Chinese stock market posted this year's widest daily gains on Monday as newly released data concerning consumer inflation, producer price and foreign trade pointed to a strengthening economy. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose ...
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What does it take to shake the Chinese market? If stock turmoil in Shanghai and talk of bank default don't strike fear in the heart of the nation, images of a metropolis falling into a chasm will perhaps do the trick. An image from the ...
Tags: Cash Squeeze, Banks
The market hasn’t been kind to anyone betting against July, be it outright shorts or those ending up on the wrong side of the July/Dec spread, as the spot month exploded for a gain of over 1200 points in just nine sessions. July ...
Tags: NY Futures, Textile
Fears of a possible global slowdown as US money printing tapers off sent Asian markets into a tailspin yesterday, pulling the Australian equities market back towards a level that has all but wiped off the gains it has made this year. ...
Tags: Asian Markets