Beijing
WEI Lili is running out of investment options. Apartment prices in her city of Wuhan are beyond her reach even after a recent property slump, and the volatile stock market is too great a risk.
"It takes more than a million yuan to buy a flat, and stocks are like a roller coaster - they are too soul-wrenching for me," said Ms Wei, 52, a government worker in the central Chinese city. She's lost almost half of a 30,000 yuan (S$6,640) investment in stocks, she said, declining to elaborate.
The party may be ending for Chinese investors who have seen housing prices boom over most of the past decade and gained from wagers on everything from surging commodity prices to industrial-company loans....