SHANGHAI: A boom in China’s stock market this year has delivered limited support to a rapidly cooling economy, helping cash-starved small firms raise funds but failing to boost consumption.
The blue-chip CSI300 index has shot up 30% from January to April in what local analysts call a “crazy bull run”, while equity fund-raising by Chinese firms has jumped 85% from a year earlier in the first quarter, data showed.
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