Traders Puzzled After Chinese Media Warning Triggers Market Selloff
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Nov 17, 2017
Overnight we highlighted that despite a massive weekly net liquidity injection by the PBOC (which ended on Friday when the PBOC drained a net 10bn in liquidity) Chinese stocks failed to hold on to Thursday’s gains, and resumed their slump…
However, it was more than the simply a question of liquidity flows, because it once again appears that Beijing is involved in micromanaging daily stock moves, only unlike the summer of 2015 when China blew a huge stock bubble in a few months, which then promptly burst leaving China scrambling for the next year to figure out how to avoid contagion, this time Xinhua had a different message: sell.
According to Bloomberg, the reason why Chinese stocks – led by Shenzhen shares – slumped on Friday, is due to a warning by state media that one of the nation’s hottest stocks was climbing too fast, which in turn triggered a selloff. And while the SHCOMP closed down 0.5%, the Shenzhen Composite Index closed down more than 2%, with liquor makers and technology companies that had outperformed this year among the biggest losers.
The catalyst that sparked the selloff? China’s biggest liquor maker, Kweichow Moutai, which plunged 3.9% – after tumbling as much as 5.8%, its largest decline since August 2015 – after Xinhua News Agency said its China’s biggest “should rise at a slower pace.” Other liquor makers fell in sympathy, Wuliangye Yibin slid as much as 5.3% in Shenzhen, the most since July 2016, and Luzhou Laojiao fell 4.7%, although the stocks, which have more than doubled this year, pared their losses by the close.
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