|
BIZCHINA> Top Biz News
![]() |
|
Stocks up on robust indicators
By Zhou Yan (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-14 07:42
Chinese stocks rose for the third straight trading day yesterday as domestic new loan creation touched a record high in March and Premier Wen Jiabao made a positive statement on China's "better than expected" real economy over the weekend. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 2.84 percent to close at 2513.7 yesterday. The smaller Shenzhen Component Index rallied 2.08 percent to 9539.8 points. The combined turnover on the two bourses soared to 284.9 billion yuan yesterday in choppy trading, up 19.9 percent from last Friday. China's central bank said new loans hit an all-time high of 1.89 trillion yuan in March, with the gauge of broad money supply M2 rising 25.51 percent year-on-year to 5.3 billion yuan.
Qian Wang, an economist at JPMorgan's Asia Economic Research, said: "Some moderation in the loan expansion pace should be expected by the market in the coming months." Premier Wen's speech on Saturday, saying that China's economy has seen "positive changes", triggered market speculation that more policies to accelerate domestic demand are on the anvil, analysts said. Chinese stock analysts have raised the 2009 earnings results of domestic enterprises traded on the mainland's bourses by 4 percent on average as recently released macro figures indicated a fundamental recovery, said Mao. Coal sector led the rally on reports that Shenhua Group and Datong Coal Mining Group are planning to raise coal contract prices to 550 yuan per ton. Shenhua, the country's largest coal miner, soared to the daily limit of 10 percent and ended at 25.09 yuan yesterday. "The profit-taking activities in the short term amid the uncertainties of unfolding first-quarter earnings reports will add pressure to the market, but there's still room for the market to rise 10-15 percent in three to six months," Mao said.
(For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
|
||||||
肇庆市| 佳木斯市| 博野县| 吴忠市| 喜德县| 连云港市| 石河子市| 新邵县| 北宁市| 大竹县| 海宁市| 米脂县| 吉安县| 榆中县| 晋江市| 富平县| 锡林郭勒盟| 饶阳县| 兖州市| 布尔津县| 民县| 沙湾县| 集安市| 威海市| 日喀则市| 山西省| 浮梁县| 天峨县| 伊宁县| 怀仁县| 肇州县| 寿宁县| 资溪县| 泌阳县| 高要市| 宣汉县| 元阳县| 南郑县| 宁强县| 红河县| 剑川县|