MSCI CEO dismisses concerns Chinese stocks are ‘uninvestable’

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By Abhishek Vishnoi MSCI Inc., the world’s biggest index provider, shook off concerns about the “investability” of Chinese stocks following recent Beijing’s regulatory crackdown, citing previous instances where markets rebounded in the aftermath. Regulatory compliance has weighed on China “every three, four, five years and obviously the markets have sold off at the time. But … Read more

Investors lose $1 trillion in China’s wild week of market shocks

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It began with a record crash in Chinese stocks on Wall Street and only got crazier from there. The nearly $1 trillion selloff ignited by Beijing’s shock ban on profits at tutoring companies has triggered a new round of soul searching about the investment case for Chinese assets in the Xi Jinping era. After a … Read more

The Hang Seng is up for an overhaul: Here’s what’s in store

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By Jeanny Yu Details of a wide-ranging overhaul of Hong Kong’s equity benchmark is set to be announced on Friday, marking the first step to diversify the financials-heavy index. The quarterly review is the first since Hang Seng Indexes Co. announced its biggest-ever overhaul in March, which includes boosting the total number of components to … Read more