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This is all grist for the China skeptics' mill. If low-interest loans meant to keep businesses humming are being diverted to stock speculation, how sustainable is China's recovery? An asset bubble may already be forming. The initial public offerings (IPOs) of Chinese companies in China and Hong Kong are being bid up to eye-popping heights. The $7.3 billion IPO of China State Construction Engineering, which debuted on the Shanghai bourse last week, soared 90% on its first trading day. The property market is sizzling too. New home sales in Shanghai shot up 70% in the first half...
...volatile oil prices and environmental concerns boosting interest in wood energy on both sides of the Atlantic, Strickland saw an opportunity. "We're the closest supplier to Europe and the U.S.," Strickland says. Back in Toronto, his hedge fund formed a company, Buchanan Renewable Energies (BRE), and readied an IPO. (See pictures of oil in Canada...
...Like the dotcom and property bubbles before it, the nascent IPO mania is being inflated by outsize expectations and good old-fashioned greed. Retail investors are growing tired of keeping their cash in banks that pay next to nothing in interest and are increasingly fearful of missing out on the stock market's continuing rise...
...With China one of the few economies that's showing an economic pulse, a lot of the cash that's been sitting on the sidelines is piling into almost anything Chinese, driving stocks to lofty valuations. Bawang's IPO, for example, which begins trading on July 3, is expected to be priced at more than 20 times the earnings it reported as a private company last year...
...With the IPO market suddenly booming, China's companies are only too happy to indulge pent-up investor demand. The crash in global markets had virtually shut down new listings. Only two Chinese enterprises went to market in the U.S. last year, down sharply from 29 in 2007. Now there's a rush to list. Accounting firm Ernst & Young says it is working on 108 IPOs; most of the offerings are by Chinese companies planning to list in China, Hong Kong or both. Meanwhile, Chinese technology firms are expected to head to the U.S., which has long been the market...