Chinese stock markets fell sharply in June 2015 due to concerns about a growing bubble. Many ordinary Chinese had taken on debt to invest in stocks as the Shanghai Composite index rose 150% from June 2014 to June 2015. However, key economic indicators showed China's economy slowing while the stock market boomed based on debt. Analysts predicted an unsustainable bubble that burst on June 12th when China's stock markets lost almost a third of their value in a single day. The Chinese government took measures like providing cash to lending institutions and suspending new stock offerings to stabilize the situation.
Chinese stock markets fell sharply in June 2015 due to concerns about a growing bubble. Many ordinary Chinese had taken on debt to invest in stocks as the Shanghai Composite index rose 150% from June 2014 to June 2015. However, key economic indicators showed China's economy slowing while the stock market boomed based on debt. Analysts predicted an unsustainable bubble that burst on June 12th when China's stock markets lost almost a third of their value in a single day. The Chinese government took measures like providing cash to lending institutions and suspending new stock offerings to stabilize the situation.
Chinese stock markets fell sharply in June 2015 due to concerns about a growing bubble. Many ordinary Chinese had taken on debt to invest in stocks as the Shanghai Composite index rose 150% from June 2014 to June 2015. However, key economic indicators showed China's economy slowing while the stock market boomed based on debt. Analysts predicted an unsustainable bubble that burst on June 12th when China's stock markets lost almost a third of their value in a single day. The Chinese government took measures like providing cash to lending institutions and suspending new stock offerings to stabilize the situation.
Well lets start from early half of last year. Between June 2014 and June 2015, China's Shanghai Composite index rose by 150 percent. A big reason for the stock market rally was that a lot of ordinary Chinese people began investing in the stock market for the first time. More than 40 million new stock accounts were opened between June 2014 and May 2015. Now to buy stocks in the market you need money & unfortunately the common people didnt have much. So what did they do? They borrowed money to buy stocks in the market. The major concern with China was that their stock markets were booming but key economic indicators of China showed that the economy was slowing down leaving many financial analyst puzzled. Think of it as a bubble which was growing on the air of debt without any increase in the real economic output of China. Analysts predicted that a huge stock market bubble was taking shape. The Chinese government was becoming weary of a debtfinanced stock market and they believed that the stock market growth had become un-sustainable. Many analyst feared that the bubble would burst and one fine day (on June 12 to be precise) China stock markets fell like there is no tomorrow, losing almost a third of its value. Desperate times call for desperate measure and the Chinese Government took the following measures to assuage the situation:
The central bank provided more cash to the China Securities Finance Corporation, a state-run company that lends people money so they can buy stocks.
Initial public offerings were suspended, so that newly issued shares
wouldn't compete for capital with those already on the market.
Companies' major shareholders those with more than 5 percent of
a company's shares, as well as executives and board members were banned from selling shares for six months.
China's securities regulator ordered companies to either buy their own