Fast foreign money is piling back into Chinese equities, with even cautious US investors placing record bets via options just in case a path develops out of the country’s property crisis and zero-Covid malaise.
The buying of Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed equities through Hong Kong’s Stock Connect programme has climbed to more than Rmb27bn ($3.8bn) this week, according to Financial Times calculations based on exchange data.
The scheme is a key route for foreigners buying mainland securities, and the purchases have completely reversed the record foreign selling sparked last month by President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power at the Chinese Communist party congress.