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Bulls & Bears: China’s Stock Market
We do think that the decisive factors in the Chinese market are the explosion in leverage (margin buying) that occurred on the way up and the extremely high PE valuations. Any market built on such conditions will surely fall. How far is hard to say, but continued rise looks very difficult and unstable. As to the economic fall-out, the short term impact looks to be minimal. But China has greater economic challenges.