Aug 17, 2025 China’s stock market, valued at $11 trillion, has failed to incentivize consumer spending due to poor equity returns over the past decade, according to a Bloomberg report. A $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 Index a decade ago would now have more than tripled, while the same amount in China’s CSI 300…
At the heart of why consumers in China save so much and spend so little, and why Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will struggle to change that behavior even if they want to, lies the country’s stock market. Even after a recent rally, Chinese indexes have only just returned to levels seen in the aftermath…
Hong Kong stocks jumped following a positive phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US president-elect Donald Trump. The Hang Seng Index added 2.3 per cent to 20,041.09 at the noon trading break, while the Hang Seng Tech Index rallied 3.2 per cent. On the mainland, the CSI 300 Index climbed 0.9 per cent…