Tuesday, 30 June 2009

How to prop up a market

From Bloomberg:

June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese new bank loans worth about an estimated 1.16 trillion yuan ($170 billion) were invested in the stock market in the first five months of this year, China Business News reported, citing a government economist.
That’s 20 percent of the 5.8 trillion yuan loans banks extended in the period, the Shanghai-based newspaper said, citing Wei Jianing, a deputy director at the macro-economics department of the Development and Research Center under China’s State Council.

That’s a lot of money that is funneled to the local stock markets. Another question we ask ourselves: can markets go down a lot with this kind of support? I doubt it.


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