Chinese share prices ended a three-day slide Tuesday on two
strong debuts in the Shenzhen bourse.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and
B shares, climbed 23.88 points, or 0.45 percent, to 5,293.70.
The smaller Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Tuesday received two new
comers -- China's oldest Peking duck restaurant chain Quanjude
(Group) Co., Ltd. and Huatian Technology Co., Ltd. -- both more
than doubled by the closing time as initial public offerings are
exempted from the daily rise limit of 10 percent.
Led by the strong debuts, the Shenzhen Component Index on the
Shenzhen bourse rose 326.81 points, or 1.96 percent, to
16,987.48.
Steel companies enjoyed the biggest rise on Tuesday with
Tangshan Steel up by 10 percent.
China Railway Engineering Corp. began its institutional
subscription on Tuesday with prices ranging from 4.0 to 4.8 yuan
per share. Retail subscriptions for a Shanghai offering of 4.675
billion shares are scheduled to kick off on Wednesday.
Analysts said the imminent share sale would worth 22.4 billion
yuan calculated on the upper limit of its offering prices.
China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd., the country's biggest
shipping container company, will submit its application for a
Shanghai offering of 2.34 billion shares to China Securities
Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Friday.
Banks rebounded despite the central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan
said there was "considerable room" for more reserve ratio rises.
China Minsheng Banking Corporation surged 3.34 percent to 16.42
yuan. Huaxia Bank went up 2.21 percent to 18.46 yuan.
PetroChina, the country's largest oil producer, dipped by 1.65
percent to 37.44 yuan on the second day of its entry into the
Shanghai Composite Index list amid concerns that its shares were
still overvalued.
China Eastern Airlines Corp rose 1.08 percent to 14.0 yuan after
it entered into an agreement to sell its 98.79 percent stake in
China Eastern Air Investment for about 461.9 million yuan.
The Hushen 300 Index, accounting for 60 percent of the nation's
stock market value, was up 74.97 points, or 1.50 percent, to
5,069.38
Speaking at the National University of Singapore on Monday,
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said the government would use economic
and legal measures to maintain the openness and transparency of
China's stock market.
(Xinhua News Agency November 21, 2007)
