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China’s Warnings Weigh On Asian Equities
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China’s Warnings Weigh On Asian Equities
By MarketPulse (Jeffrey Halley) | Aug 03, 2021 05:14AM ET Asian equities soft after mixed US session
Wall Street finished on a slightly negative note after softer than expected US PMI data. That saw some rotational flows out of cyclical, and tech with the S&P 500 falling 0.19% while the NASDAQ edged 0.06% higher and the Dow Jones fell by 0.29%. The selling pressure was limited by the fall in US yields providing some peripheral support.
US futures on all three indexes have risen in Asia by around 0.20%, but that has not been enough to stop Asian markets from falling into the red. The rise in COVID-19 cases and their geographical spread in mainland China is clearly spooking local investors today. That sees the Nikkei 225 falling by 0.85%, with the KOSPI clinging to unchanged.
COVID-19 aside, the situation on the ground got murkier in China this morning, with the Economic Information Daily likening online gaming to “spiritual opium,” cue Tencent (NYSE:TME) shares and others being sold heavily. After the last few weeks, even oblique warnings from authorities are ignored at your peril, and it seems that regulatory risk is alive and well in China still.
The mainland’s Shanghai Composite was unchanged, but the more tech-weighted CSI 300 fell by 0.60%, while the Hang Seng dropped by 1.0%. After that article, the modest scope of the falls has me thinking that China’s “national team” might be “smoothing” today.
Singapore was down 0.85%, with Kuala Lumpur off 0.30%, while Bangkok rose by 0.40%. Taipei and Manila were flat, with Australia’s All Ordinaries down 0.20% and the ASX 200 down 0.35%.
Europe is likely to take its cue from the rise in US futures this morning and start the day slightly positive. Only a spiraling COVID-19 caseload in Mainland China would likely spill over onto European markets, which has mostly ignored the China clampdown ructions so far.
Yesterday we saw international investors piling into mainland stocks via the Hong Kong/Shanghai connect pipeline. The story mentioned above proves that bargain hunting in China remains fraught with risk still.
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China’s Warnings Weigh On Asian Equities
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