China’s Stocks Enter Bear Market as Rate Cut Fails to Stop Rout
Chinese stocks tumbled, sending the benchmark index into a bear market, as signs of an exodus by leveraged investors overshadowed the central bank’s effort to revive confidence with an interest-rate cut.
The retreat marks an end to the nation’s longest-ever bull market, a rally that’s lured record numbers of individual investors and convinced traders to bet an unprecedented amount of borrowed money on further gains. China’s interest-rate cut, along with assurances from the securities regulator that risks from margin trading are controllable, failed to ease concern that speculators are unwinding their positions.