Trading halts give investors new reason to shun H shares
Hong Kong
THE list of reasons for global investors to avoid Chinese shares in Hong Kong keeps getting longer.
Already beaten down by China's economic slowdown, a falling yuan and vanishing top executives, so-called H shares now face a new threat: the impact of circuit breakers on the mainland. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index fell as much as 4.4 per cent on Monday after trading halts in Shanghai and Shenzhen spurred investors to shift sell orders to Hong Kong.
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