Jul
08
This Is Why So Many Chinese Companies Are Suspended
ByChina’s corporations have been big fans of stock-based loans, too
At least 1,331 companies have halted trading on China’s mainland exchanges, freezing $2.6 trillion of shares, or about 40 percent of the country’s market value, Bloombergreported on Wednesday.
The Shanghai Composite Index fell 5.9 percent on Wednesday. It’s now about 32 percent below the peak of 5,166 it reached on June 12. The unwinding of margin loans is adding fuel to the fire. Individual investors in China, as we all know by now, have usedgenerous margin financing terms to enter the stock market and then build up their portfolios. Less-known is that Chinese companies have been doing the same thing byusing their own corporate stock to secure loans from banks…
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