China could soon make its presence felt in the French power sector as its sovereign wealth fund said it had studied investments in both Areva, the state-owned nuclear group, and its energy equipment division.
The China Investment Corporation has paid a visit to Areva executives in recent weeks to seek out information on “the business and its performance”, according to one person close to the company.
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Chinese wealth fund eyes Areva investment
China’s long march to stock exchange stability
There is a rich vein to mine when searching for patterns and precedents that might help explain gyrations in western markets. Those searching for plausible parallels for this year’s bounce have travelled back as far as the Panic of 1907.
History, alas, is not much help when it comes to making sense of market movements in one of the world’s most ancient civilisations. China’s stock exchange – launched by communist rulers as a grudging experiment in the early 1990s – is a mere teenager, and often acts like one. It is a confused creature, prone to hormonal highs and lows, and occasionally frustrated by parental (read government) supervision that is too permissive one month, too strict the next.
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Investors take heart as Shanghai bounces back
A powerful rebound for Chinese stocks offered an encouraging backdrop for global equity markets yesterday, although the broader risk environment was more mixed.
The Shanghai Composite index leapt 4.5 per cent – its biggest one-day rise since March – amid hopes of government action to support the market following its slide since the start of the month.
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