Dousing China's commodities frenzy
But if the mainland's equity bubble is any guide, regulators may find it difficult to cool the excessive speculation without triggering a collapse in prices
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FROM the Dutch tulip craze of 1637 to America's dot-com bubble at the turn of the century, history is littered with speculative frenzies that ended badly for investors.
But rarely has a mania escalated so rapidly, and spurred such fevered trading, as the great China commodities boom of 2016. Over the span of just two wild months, daily turnover on the nation's futures markets has jumped by the equivalent of US$183 billion, outpacing the headiest days of last year's Chinese stock bubble and making volumes on the Nasdaq exchange in 2000 look tame.
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