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Sbk2012 Side Hero Username: Sbk2012 Post Number: 6824 Registered: 01-2014 Posted From: 68.5.32.99 Rating: N/A |
GREAT FALL OF CHINA The near 9 percent slump in Chinese stocks was their worst performance since the depths of the global financial crisis in 2009 and wiped out what was left of the 2015 gains, which in June has been more than 50 percent. The latest rout was rooted in investor disappointment that Beijing did not announce expected policy support over the weekend after its markets shed 11 percent last week. Compounding the real-time falls all index futures contracts slumped by their 10 percent daily limit, pointing to more bad days ahead. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 5.1 percent to a three-year low. Tokyo's Nikkei was down 4.1 percent and Australian and Indonesian shares hit two-year troughs. "China could be forced to devalue the yuan even more, should its economy falter, and the equity markets are dealing with the prospect of a weaker yuan amplifying the negative impact from a sluggish Chinese economy," said Eiji Kinouchi, chief technical analyst at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo. There was further evidence that developed markets were becoming synchronised with the troubles. London's FTSE which has a large number of global miners and oil firms, was down for its 10th straight day, its worst run since 2003. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300, meanwhile, was down 3.1 percent by 0830 GMT at 1,382.15 points, wiping around 260 billion euros ($298.61 billion) off the index and taking its losses for the month to more that 1 trillion euros. [.EU] U.S. stock futures also pointed to larger losses for Wall Street's main markets, with the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial and Nasdaq expected to open down 1.8, 2.2 and 3.1 percent respectively. "We are in the midst of a full-blown growth scare," strategists at JP Morgan Cazenove said in a note. |