China stocks hit two-week highs on Monday and Hong Kong shares also climbed as Beijing stepped up efforts to stabilise markets, while hopes of early interest rate cuts by global central banks aided sentiment further.
China’s blue-chip CSI300 Index rose 1.3% by the lunch break, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.9%. Hong Kong’s stock benchmark Hang Seng Index jumped 1.7%.
Chinese mutual fund companies are rushing to buy their own stock products, as the country’s securities regulator vowed fresh measures to guide long-term capital into the stock market.
Fidelity China Special Situations PLC (LON:FCSS), the UK’s largest China Investment Trust, capitalises on Fidelity’s extensive, locally-based analyst team to find attractive opportunities in a market too big to ignore.