Never mind Greece, look at China

While all eyes are focused on Greece, there is a potentially far more important crash going on.

Via Sober Look comes this pair of charts:





















China's stock market is crashing. It's very evidently a bubble bursting. The question is, what will be the knock-on effect to the Chinese economy, and indeed to the whole of South East Asia, Brutal sell-offs of this kind are rarely without economic cost, especially when the bubble is debt financed (as this one is). I can't see this ending well.

Related reading:

China stocks are battered anew - WSJ


Comments

  1. Doesn't look as bad with logarithmic scale.

    It's only down 20% from gaining 250% in a year! We might get in for a wild ride up and then loose our shirts. If only we got in a year ago or near 1990.

    Since 1990, it has gone up nearly 800 times. Going capitalist.

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    1. True, but how much debt has been leveraged off that 250% increase ..

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    2. It is only the start of the crisis of the stock markets. As the money is no longer guaranteed by gold, the crisis will be very very bad ! http://www.worldcorruption.info/eng/greece.htm

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  2. Correction:

    From 1990 to the high in 2015 the shanghai market went up only 50 times.

    1990-12-1 9,99.98
    2015-06-05, 5023.10


    http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=000001.SS+Interactive#{%22range%22:%22max%22}

    http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=000001.SS+Interactive#{%22useLogScale}

    Google shows that it last went up 5% June 30 close.

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  3. Correction of correction:

    From 1990 to the high in 2015 the shanghai market went up only 50 times.

    1990-12-19, 99.98
    2015-06-05, 5023.10

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