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While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.
The meltdown, tanking the mainland STAR50 index of AI and semiconductor leaders by 40% in less than four months and vaporising some US$480 billion (S$615 billion) in market value, is an ill omen for wobbly world markets and a dampener on China’s efforts at encouraging its savers into stocks to fund the AI boom.
It has also slammed the brakes on a rally running two years, since economic stimulus promises sent shares soaring, and has stalled Beijing’s push to break with a long boom-bust pattern and drive a “slow bull” market that delivers reliable performance.
China’s broad blue-chip index has dropped about 20% from highs made in June.
“The stock market later evolved into a speculative crazy bull,” said Beijing-based fund manager Dong Baozhen. “And now we see the bubble bursting.”
The reversal reflects a rally that ran to higher heights than markets in the West or elsewhere in Asia, and compares with a mere prick to US AI stocks, which have led a 6% drawdown in the Nasdaq from a record high scaled three weeks ago.
There has been no obvious selling trigger in China, although traders said high prices, tax bills and the threat of the US or other nations banning Chinese equipment in data centres all contributed.
See article @ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-china-the-ai-bubble-has-already-burst
The meltdown, tanking the mainland STAR50 index of AI and semiconductor leaders by 40% in less than four months and vaporising some US$480 billion (S$615 billion) in market value, is an ill omen for wobbly world markets and a dampener on China’s efforts at encouraging its savers into stocks to fund the AI boom.
It has also slammed the brakes on a rally running two years, since economic stimulus promises sent shares soaring, and has stalled Beijing’s push to break with a long boom-bust pattern and drive a “slow bull” market that delivers reliable performance.
China’s broad blue-chip index has dropped about 20% from highs made in June.
“The stock market later evolved into a speculative crazy bull,” said Beijing-based fund manager Dong Baozhen. “And now we see the bubble bursting.”
The reversal reflects a rally that ran to higher heights than markets in the West or elsewhere in Asia, and compares with a mere prick to US AI stocks, which have led a 6% drawdown in the Nasdaq from a record high scaled three weeks ago.
There has been no obvious selling trigger in China, although traders said high prices, tax bills and the threat of the US or other nations banning Chinese equipment in data centres all contributed.
See article @ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-china-the-ai-bubble-has-already-burst
