China equity market set to crash ( even further)

US mutual funds cannot invest in short positions. They must invest in long positions. But where in the world can they place their funds?

Like a flock of birds fund managers seem to have decided in 2008 that a safe place to land (for now) is in China. As long as more and more mutual fund managers keep putting more and more funds into China equities the equity markets defy gravity and don't fall. Lol! It's a repeat of mutual funds flocking into commodity equities in 2007--which crashed in 2008.

Where in China is the good news? China’s exports are falling and, due to rising unemployment, domestic demand will be difficult to stimulate. How long until the mutual funds fly away and the flock follows?

China Stock Gains to End as Profit Drops, Xie Says

(Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks rally, having turned the Shanghai Composite Index into the world’s best performer this year, will falter as profits are “non-existent,” said Andy Xie, former chief Asian economist at Morgan Stanley.

The Shanghai measure has gained 22 percent this year, the most among 90 global stock gauges tracked by Bloomberg. The index is valued at 17.4 times earnings, the most expensive among the so-called BRIC markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China.

The rally will run out of steam as “profits are non- existent and valuations are still expensive,” Xie, who is now an independent economist, said in an interview yesterday.

Investors opened 427,460 new accounts to trade stocks last week, according to data posted on the Web site of China Securities Depository & Clearing Corp. yesterday, almost double the number in the previous week and the most since the five days to March 28.


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