Yuan dips slightly | Image:Freepik
See less evil. Buying and selling shares in the People’s Republic is about to get harder. This month the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges said they would, as of mid-May, stop publishing real-time data of foreign investors’ trades into and out of domestic stocks. The duo is presenting the move as a technical change to bring them into line with bourses outside China. It smacks, though, of yet another attempt to prop up sentiment.
The current setup comes courtesy of the Stock Connect, an almost decade-old system linking the two mainland exchanges with their peer in Hong Kong. It allows foreigners to…
