(Bloomberg) — Chinese households are tiptoeing back into equities, driven in part by a stark reality: Almost nothing else looks worth buying. The CSI 300 Index has surged more than 25% since its April lows, fueled by enthusiasm over artificial intelligence and easing relations with the US, which culminated in a call between Donald Trump…
An electronic ticker displays the figures for the CSI 300 Index, top, and the SZSME on a footbridge in Pudong’s Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Chinese investors are putting their faith in the government to engineer a slow and steady rise in share prices, betting that previous periods of boom…
For Chinese investors, the grass is almost always greener elsewhere. The country’s stockmarket chronically underperforms, meaning that local punters look to bourses in, say, America or Japan, and devise ways of getting cash around China’s capital controls. But this year is different. The Shanghai Composite, an index for China’s domestic market, hit a ten-year high…
By Samuel Shen and Summer Zhen SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Chinese investors are piling into Hong Kong shares lured by lower valuations and the city’s strategic position in China’s growing rivalry with the United States. A record $90 billion of cash from the mainland has driven a stellar 21% rally in Hong Kong stocks in the…
Jun 22, 2025 Hong Kong investors are increasingly directing their attention towards Japan’s real estate market, challenging the dominance of US, Singaporean, and mainland Chinese investors. According to a report by market consultants, global investors, including those from Hong Kong, are investing heavily in Japan’s residential property sector as returns in mainland China continue to…
As US-China trade tensions heat up, a new wave of patriotic investing is sweeping across China. Spurred by former President Donald Trump‘s tariff threats, everyday citizens are entering the stock market—not for profit, but to show support for their country. From designers to teachers and traders, retail investors are pouring money into sectors tied to…
Feb 19, 2025 On Tuesday, Chinese mainland investors made significant purchases of Hong Kong stocks, acquiring shares worth HK$22.4 billion ($2.88 billion). According to a report by Bloomberg, this marks the largest daily purchase since early 2021 and ranks as the fourth-largest on record since the inception of trading links with Hong Kong in late…
By Samuel Shen and Jiaxing Li SHANGHAI/HONGKONG (Reuters) – Chinese investors are rushing into AI-related stocks, betting the artificial intelligence advance of home-grown startup DeepSeek will lead to a boom in the sector and give the initiative to China in an intensifying Sino-U.S. technology war. Feverish buying has pumped up shares of Chinese chipmakers, software…
Beijing resident Evelyn Lin paid US$274,000 for a flat in Bangkok in 2018, hoping to use the property as her home when she spends holidays in the Thai capital. However, the recent spate of kidnappings of mainland Chinese and the trafficking of Hong Kong residents to scam farms in nearby countries are keeping her away…