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The “most hated bull market in history” also features the most optimistic long-term earnings growth expectations in history. The math ain’t mathing on that one.
Having recently traded China A shares myself, my impression was that the market is far too easily moved, and even manipulated, by absurd rumors.
At the time, I held a leading Chinese CCL stock. One day, a rumor circulated that Chinese securities regulators were investigating a fund for allegedly manipulating CCL related stocks. As a result, a stock that had been up nearly 7% intraday quickly gave back all its gains and fell back to around flat.
But after local Chinese media looked into the matter, the rumor was found to be false.
A shares are far too vulnerable to rumors. I no longer trade China A shares.
China’s retail sales — a nominal figure — grew just 0.2% in April, marking the weakest reading on record outside the Covid era.
Investor pessimism about consumption has become deeply entrenched: the underperformance of consumer-oriented sectors relative to the broader market has now widened to the largest gap in history.
“Nobody wants to touch anything tied to consumption.” That is, broadly speaking, the prevailing sentiment among onshore investors.