China’s stockmarket rally may hurt the economy
SOME CALL it 9/24 for short. On September 24th last year China’s officials decided to engineer a rally in the stockmarket. The central bank cut interest rates and bank reserve requirements. It also enabled companies to buy back their shares and institutional investors to leverage their balance-sheets more easily. The markets took the hint. Buy “everything”, advised an American hedge-fund manager.
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