Shanghai opens, leaps

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Shanghai is open and after dithering a few minutes is off to the races:

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From Goldies via Forexlive:

With a number of stocks suspended-we’ve had 32 percent of the market cap being suspended-we haven’t really had a clearing of price that’s fully taken place and the deleveraging which has been going on hasn’t yet fully purged

That’s really what we’re looking for for a sign of a market bottom.”

“We think the rough equilibrium level would probably be about a trillion” [in margin debt, currently at 1.6 trillion]

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I don’t know. If you can’t find a bottom when you threaten to shoot anyone selling short, and you add unlimited buying power via the central bank, then you’ve bought yourself one very serious lemon.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.