According to Bloomberg, China Securities Finance Corp., the state-backed agency that provides funding to brokerages for margin trading, will restart offering loans to securities firms at lower interest rates.
Last year, a surge in margin loans fueled the stock boom in the first half and magnified the financial slump of stocks that followed. In other words, we’re looking into a replay of the big boom and subsequent bust of the Chinese stock market in 2015.
Investors leveraging hard-earned cash sought safer investment vessels and found them in domain names.
The big boom in 2015 of short, “chip” domain names was an attempt at gaming the system outside of the stock market’s core; when millions can be shifted under an artificial need for short domains, it’s tempting to continue the game – until it crashes, that is.
Indeed, recent results in Chinese domain sales have been disappointing, as domain investor Joseph Peterson repeatedly analyzed. The beginning of this year has shown a downwards movement of even the most prestigious short domains, LL .com’s.
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Last year, a surge in margin loans fueled the stock boom in the first half and magnified the financial slump of stocks that followed. In other words, we’re looking into a replay of the big boom and subsequent bust of the Chinese stock market in 2015.
Investors leveraging hard-earned cash sought safer investment vessels and found them in domain names.
The big boom in 2015 of short, “chip” domain names was an attempt at gaming the system outside of the stock market’s core; when millions can be shifted under an artificial need for short domains, it’s tempting to continue the game – until it crashes, that is.
Indeed, recent results in Chinese domain sales have been disappointing, as domain investor Joseph Peterson repeatedly analyzed. The beginning of this year has shown a downwards movement of even the most prestigious short domains, LL .com’s.
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