Thursday, January 7, 2016

BOHICA: Shanghai Opens Positive, Wavers

It was looking so promising.
A half-hour into the trading day the Shanghai composite is now down a couple percent and BOHICA is the acronym for Bend Over Here It Comes Again.

From ZeroHedge:

Here We Go Again: Chinese Stocks Plunge, Give Up Early Gains Despite Yuan Fix Unchanged
Update: *SHANGHAI COMPOSITE INDEX FALLS 2.04%(AFTER BEING UP 3.2%)
And CSI Futures are tumbling...

As we detailed earlier..

With all eyes on Chinese FX and equity markets, following the worst start to a year for US (and Chinese) stocks in history, PBOC decided (after 7 straight days of devaluation and 7% devaluation since August) to halt the run and increase Yuan fix by a paltry 0.01% to 6.5636 (notably below yesterday's 6.5939 CNY close). Offshore Yuan is strengthening and US equity markets are jumping. Chinese equity markets (now theoretically unhampered by their circuit-breaker panic switch) are far less impressed....
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At least they're still trading.