Shanghai Composite Rockets 3.2% Higher

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Despite awful economic news about its own gross domestic product (GDP) prospects, China’s Shanghai Composite rose 3.2% to 2,073. It is worth remembering that it is down 10% over the past six months. In concert with the rise, its sister exchange, the Hang Seng, was up 2.5%. The reasons for the increases are several.

One is that China and other large nations may cheer the decision by the Federal Reserve to continue to ease via bond buying. On the other hand, certain members of the Fed would like that easing to taper down. Ironically, that would be a sign of a strong economy — a cause for a rally all alone.

China likely will do a great deal to repair its own economy, and the balance sheet of its troubled banks — another reason for a market rally. The banking system in China is undercapitalized and unruly, to the extent that a shadow banking presence with uncontrolled interest rates makes the larger financial system unstable. The People’s Republic has indicated it has plans to solve these problems.

Whatever the reasons, or combination of them, the rally is real, and so is the hope that a sputtering Chinese economy may right itself

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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