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Falling 'Liquidity' Continues To Weigh On China Tech Stocks

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  • These last few days were marked by strong downside moves on Chinese equities; China tech stocks are down 10% since Thursday.
  • Beijing's decision to crack down on private tuition firms catalyzed the sell-off late last week, with selling accelerating today and prompting speculation that offshore (namely US) funds are offloading positions and exiting the region.
  • In addition, we saw that a series of financial and economic indicators have been showing that Chinese economic activity has peaked in February.
  • China equities (CSI 300 index) are down 20% since February, and highly-volatile tech stocks (CQQQ ETF) are down nearly 35%.
  • This chart also shows that China tech stocks have been very sensitive to periods of sharp contraction in Chinese 'liquidity', which we measure as the annual change in the China Total Social Financing 12M sum.

Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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