China: the year of the bear

With equity prices sliding by more than 20% this year, China has entered a bear market.

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"Little noticed in the West, China has entered a bear market," says Jeremy Warner in the Daily Telegraph. Stocks have slid by more than 20% this year. Now, they are languishing "amid a sea of worries". The US Federal Reserve's higher interest rates are drawing money away from risky assets such as emerging markets. The trade war with the US, and a slowing Chinese economy with its growing mountain of debt, are further major worries. "Is the Chinese development story finally beginning to stumble?"

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

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