Shenzhen

China’s US$11 trillion stock market is a headache for both Xi and Trump

Instead of incentivising consumers to spend, poor equity returns have nudged them towards saving

The guidance came as Chinese stocks kicked off 2025 with deep losses on worries that incoming US President Donald Trump would impose hefty tariffs on Chinese goods, heaping more pressure on an already sluggish economy.

Chinese exchanges ask big fund managers to restrict stock selling: sources

CHINA’S main stock exchanges asked some large mutual funds to restrict stock selling at the start of the year, three sources familiar with the matter said, as authorities sought to calm markets headin...

With billions of US dollars worth of trading volume flowing across the border between Hong Kong and Shanghai and Shenzhen on a daily basis, the stock connect has been a success.

Investors eye IPO access as Hong Kong stock link turns 10

A DECADE after China opened up its exchanges to a broad swath of international investors through a trading link with Hong Kong, investors are craving deeper access.

Shanghai, China’s commercial and financial hub (top), and Shenzhen, the country’s answer to Silicon Valley, will also seek to scrap limits on the number of homes that people can buy, say three sources.

Shanghai, Shenzhen to lift key home purchase curbs to boost market

Potential buyers will not be vetted for eligibility and people from other places in China will be allowed to buy homes in the popular cities

Founded in 1990 in what was then a fishing village, the Shenzhen bourse has fast developed to become China’s largest stock market after the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and one of the world’s busiest markets for IPOs.

China securities official expected to lead Shenzhen stock exchange: sources

CHINA is expected to appoint a senior securities official to head its second-largest bourse, four sources said, filling a role that has been vacant for the unusually long period of seven months as the...

Cross-border travel from Hong Kong has dominated local headlines in the past year, as residents travel to Guangdong province for leisure, dental and bulk grocery shopping.

Asia’s largest reit calls for Hong Kong to resume multi-entry visas from Shenzhen

ASIA’S largest commercial real estate investment trust said Hong Kong authorities should resume issuing multi-entry permits for Shenzhen visitors to boost retail spending.

Both countries had agreed in January to set up the zone, and Malaysia plans to finalise and sign a pact by the end of the year. 

Johor eyes Shenzhen-style hub with Singapore

The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone would be nearly twice the size of China’s Shenzhen at 3,505 sq km

Housing sales in Shenzhen in the first two months of the year were about a third less than the peak for the same period of 2021.

Shenzhen eases home buying to revive sales in China tech hub

Relaxation is the city’s latest attempt to boost demand

Travel to the mainland has been made more compelling by new infrastructure that cut travel times in half between the cities.

Young Hongkongers who defied Xi are now partying in China

IN 2019, Leung joined a Hong Kong movement to boycott Chinese-owned restaurants like many protesters opposing President Xi Jinping’s encroachment of the former British colony. Now she and her peers re...

The fund's sell order on Monday morning led to rapid stock market declines, prompting the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges to impose trading restrictions on Lingjun until Feb 22.

China restricts quant fund Lingjun in effort to boost market

CHINA’S stock exchanges on Tuesday (Feb 20) said major quant fund Lingjun Investment had broken rules on orderly trading and barred it from buying and selling for three days, as part of wider regulato...