2024年2月12日 星期一

Chinese stock is “the defeat of one man”- Escaping money goes to Japan (1/2)

Recently NHK News on-line reported the following:

1人負け」の中国株 逃避マネーは日本に (1/2)

【中国発経済コラム】

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日本やアメリカの株式市場で活況が続く一方、中国では株安に歯止めがかかりません。不動産不況の深刻化で、中国市場から投資マネーの流出が加速。「1人負け」の様相となっています。

20241月下旬、香港の裁判所が不動産大手「恒大グループ」に対して清算命令を出したことで、投資家心理はさらに悪化。とうとう証券行政トップの更迭とみられる人事も発表されました。そして、中国から流出したマネーは日本に向かっているというのですが、この先何が起きるのでしょうか。

(中国総局記者 下村直人)

証券行政のトップ 突然の更迭

習近平指導部が株式市場の暴落を止めるため、市場規制当局トップを交代」

 

202427日、アメリカのメディア、ブルームバーグは株価対策を担っていた証券監督管理委員会のトップ、易会満主席が退任し、後任に上海市共産党委員会の呉清副書記が就任すると速報で伝えました。

当局から理由は明らかにされていませんが、市場では株安を理由に更迭された可能性があると指摘されています。

2015年から翌年にかけて続いた株安でも同じように責任者の辞任劇があり、投資家からは「あのときと同じパターンだな」との声も聞こえてきます。


下落傾向続く中国の株式市場

証券行政トップを更迭しなければならないほど、中国市場の株価は下落が深刻です。

上海株式市場の株価指数は25日の取り引き時間中に一時、2635ポイント台をつけ、20192月以来、およそ5年ぶりの安値となりました。

この日の終値は2023年の年末の終値と比べると9%余りの下落で、2021年の終値ベースの高値(219月)からは27%余りの下落となりました。

マネーの流れを分析しているIIF=国際金融協会のまとめでは、20231年間の中国の株式・債券市場から流出した外国マネーの額は845億ドル、日本円で125000億円にのぼりました。

景気減速に投資家心理の悪化

背景にあるのは、不動産不況の深刻化などに伴う中国経済の減速です。

20231年間のGDP=国内総生産はプラス5.2%と政府の目標は達成したものの、前年の「ゼロコロナ」政策の反動も大きく、回復は力強さを欠いています。

厳しい雇用情勢や消費者の節約志向の高まりと需要の停滞。

強まるデフレへの懸念。

改正「反スパイ法」の不透明な運用などによる外国企業の投資の減少。

アメリカとの対立による輸出の低迷。

 景気の牽引役不在の中、129日には経営危機に陥っていた「恒大グループ」が香港の裁判所から清算命令を受け、投資家心理はさらに悪化しました。

 

逃避マネーは日本へ

中国株に見切りをつけた投資家が今、ねらいを定めているとみられるのが日本株です。

香港のあるファンドマネージャーは「中国株の比率を大幅に下げ、日本株を買い増している」と明かしました。

中国経済の先行きが不透明なことに加え、ことし秋のアメリカ大統領選挙でトランプ前大統領が当選すれば、米中対立の激化は避けられないという見方もあって、香港では日本株の比率を高める機関投資家が増えているといいます。

中国に駐在する日本の証券会社の関係者も「中国市場の低迷で、業績が安定している日本企業や堅調な日本株にスポットライトが当たり、問い合わせが急増している」と話していました。

また、日本株に連動するETF=上場投資信託には中国の投資家からの注文が殺到。

一部の商品では1月中旬、売買代金がそれまでの平均の100倍以上に急拡大し、一時、売買停止になりました。

あまりの過熱ぶりに運用会社が投資家に損失リスクを警告しましたが、取引再開後も上昇は続き、翌日以降も断続的に売買が停止される異例の事態となっています。

資本規制が厳しい中国では限られた選択肢として、日本株ETFへの「爆買い」が続いています。

(to be continued)

Translation

While stock markets in Japan and the United States continued to be active, there was no halt to the decline in stock prices in China. Due to the worsening real estate recession, the outflow of investment money from the Chinese market was accelerating. It look like ``the defeat of one man''.

In late January 2024, a Hong Kong court issued a liquidation order to the real estate giant Evergrande Group that further worsened investor sentiment. Finally, a personnel appointment was announced that seemed to be the resignation of the head of the securities administration. Then it was said that the money flowing out of China was going to Japan, what would happen in the future?

(Naoto Shimomura (下村直人), China General Bureau reporter)

Sudden “replacement” of the head of securities administration?

"Xi Jinping's leadership replaces top market regulators in order to stop stock market crash"

On February 7, 2024, the American media outlet Bloomberg in a breaking news reported that Chairman Yi Huiman (易会満), the head of the Securities Regulatory Commission who was in charge of stock price measures would retire, and Wu Qing (呉清)the deputy secretary of the Shanghai Communist Party Committee would be appointed as his successor.

The authorities did not disclosed the reason, but the market was pointing out that he might have been fired due to the drop in stock prices.

The stock market decline that continued from 2015 to the following year also saw the resignation of a responsible person, and some investors were saying, ``This is the same pattern as then.''

Chinese stock market continued to decline

The more top securities administration had to be replaced, the more severe the stock prices in the Chinese market fell.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange's stock index briefly hit the 2,635-point range during trading hours on February 5, the lowest level in about five years since February 2019.

The closing price on this day was a drop of over 9% compared to the closing price at the end of 2023, and a drop of over 27% from the high price based on the closing price in 2021 (September 2021).

According to a summary by the Institute of International Finance (IIF), which analyzed money flows, the amount of foreign money flowing out of China's stock and bond markets in 2023 is 84.5 billion dollars, or 12.5 trillion yen in Japanese yen.

Investor sentiment deteriorated due to economic slowdown

The background was the slowdown in the Chinese economy due to the deepening real estate recession.

Although the government's goal of increasing GDP (gross domestic product) in 2023 by 5.2% had been achieved, the recovery lacked strength due to the large backlash from the previous year's "zero coronavirus" policy.

Difficult employment conditions, increasing consumer preference for savings, and stagnation in demand.

 There were concerns about increasing deflation.

 There was a decrease in investment by foreign companies due to unclear implementation of the revised anti-espionage law.

 The export was sluggish due to conflict with the United States.

 In the absence of a driving force for the economy, when Evergrande Group that was in financial crisis  received a liquidation order from a Hong Kong court on January 29, investors' sentiment further deteriorated

 Escaping money went to Japan

It seemed that investors who had given up on Chinese stocks were now setting their sights on Japanese stocks.

A fund manager in Hong Kong revealed, ``We have significantly lowered the proportion of Chinese stocks and are increasing our purchases of Japanese stocks.''

In addition to the uncertain future of the Chinese economy, there was also the view that if former President Trump would be elected in the US presidential election this fall, it might be inevitable that the US-China conflict would intensify, it was said that the number of institutional investors who had high proportion of Japanese stocks in Hong Kong was increasing.

An official from a Japanese securities company based in China said, ``Due to the slump in the Chinese market, the spotlight has been on Japanese companies with stable business performance and strong Japanese stocks, and inquiries are rapidly increasing.''

In addition, orders from Chinese investors were flooding in for ETFs (exchange traded funds) that tracked Japanese stocks.

In mid-January, the trading value of some products suddenly increased to more than 100 times the average up to that moment, and trading was temporarily halted.

The stock was so overheated that the management company warning investors of the risk of loss, but even after trading resumed, the price continued to rise, creating an unusual situation in which trading was halted intermittently from the next day onward.

In China where capital regulations were strict, there were limited options, and Japanese stock ETFs continued to see ``binge shopping.''

(to be continued)

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