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China could spend billions purchasing stocks if the coronavirus panic proceeds

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Monday’s market auction in China was the most noticeably awful in numerous years and cleaned about a large portion of a trillion dollars off the value of the nation’s greatest organizations. Presently the Chinese government needs to discover approaches to stem the panic before the coronavirus epidemic makes things even worse.

Beijing as of now has a blueprint to work with. At the point when the Chinese stock market bubble popped in 2015, sending shares into a significantly deeper tailspin, the government stepped in with a salvage plan. Utilizing a state-possessed financing organization and its sovereign wealth fund, China spent more than 1.2 trillion yuan ($170 billion) purchasing shares to support costs.

This time, the nation may need to do likewise.

“I think the regulators are closely watching the situation and prepared to take direct action to intervene,” said Mark Huang, an expert for Bright Smart Securities, a Hong Kong-based brokerage firm.

It’s too soon to tell whether China is in for another delayed market rout. While the Shanghai Composite plunged almost 8% Monday, it shut 1.3% higher Tuesday. Shenzhen stocks posted comparable increases.

Be that as it may, the effect of the coronavirus is developing every day. The number of cases has now topped 20,000 around the world, and over 400 individuals are dead. Enormous parts of China are still on lockdown, while airlines have canceled flights to and from the nation, and organizations with ties to China are having to weigh the likely hit to sales and their supply chains.

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