In The Past Month Chinese Investors Have Lost $2.8 Trillion

Bloomberg: China Brokers Set Up $19 Billion Fund to Stem Market Rout

Chinese brokerage firms have come together to set up a stock-market fund, the latest effort to stem the biggest three-week drop in China’s key share index since 1992.

The 21 brokers led by Citic Securities Co. will invest the equivalent of 15 percent of their net assets as of the end of June, or no less than 120 billion yuan ($19.3 billion) in total, the Securities Association of China said in a statement on its website Saturday. The fund will invest in blue-chip exchange-traded funds, it said.

The move comes after measures to shore up equities failed to stop margin traders from unwinding positions at a record pace, with the market losing more than $2.8 trillion of value in three weeks. The People’s Bank of China cut interest rates last week, while margin-trading rules were eased and trading fees were cut Wednesday.

WNU Editor: My friends in China are telling me that this is just a start of a major correction .... and to expect more loses over the summer months. In short .... expect global commodity prices to drop as Chinese demand for such products decline.