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...apartments, if they could afford to, flipping them for higher prices, and buying again. The government really wanted to cool off the speculation, the boss told her. Probably not a good time to buy. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added: It might be a good time to buy stocks instead. Liu balked. "I don't really understand the stock market,'' says the 35-year-old, "why it goes up or down." Now she is kicking herself. "I can't believe I was so dumb," she says, "but I think it's too late...
...question-is there a bubble in China stocks?-is of global concern because of the knock-on effect a meltdown could have on markets worldwide. After soaring 130% last year, the Shanghai Composite Index suddenly buckled on Feb. 27, plunging 8.8% and giving investors in the rest of the world a sudden case of the Chinese flu. Since then, however, China stocks have resumed their near-vertical ascent, in recent weeks setting record highs almost daily. By some estimates, there is now more money in the Shanghai stock market than there is in bank savings accounts nationwide-this...
...With Shanghai stocks now trading at an average of about 38 times their projected 2007 earnings-a high ratio even for a fast-growing developing economy-China is causing a serious case of the shakes. The issue isn't simply that the little guys are in danger of losing their savings. It's whether a serious market downturn might blunt, or even reverse, China's growth. Mainland authorities have already made it clear that they are concerned about economic overheating, "and the stock market is part of that picture," says an economist at the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS...
...inevitable. China's stellar track record of managing its economy over the past decade makes some analysts relatively confident a soft landing can be engineered. A hedge-fund manager in Shanghai notes that AIG, the insurance giant, tried this month to raise $1.3 billion to launch a China stock fund-and fell $400 million short of that goal. "There are signs that this is going to cool off, but not crash," he insists. Jun Ma, a Deutsche Bank economist in Hong Kong, says the recent rate hikes should keep inflation in check, and without inflation, there's no real risk...
...time, Harvard did not expressly prohibit stock ownership in drug companies. Even though a Massachusetts medical board later dismissed all charges against the researcher and his supervisor, the report raised concerns that Harvard had not provided sufficient safeguards to protect against potential conflicts...