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Stock trading up 6 folds in January
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2007-02-14 16:54
Turnover on the Chinese mainland's stock exchanges reached a record 2.56 trillion yuan (US$330 billion) last month, more than seven times the amount a year earlier, Xinhua News Agency reported today.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange traded 1.72 trillion yuan last month, booming 675 percent from a year earlier, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange traded 836 billion yuan, surging 523 percent.

Mainland residents opened more new stock accounts last month than they did in all of 2005 - driven by the lure of high returns from a booming market.

Investors established 1.38 million securities investment accounts in January, a monthly high and a 134 percent increase from December.

The figure compared with 1.24 million new accounts in 2005 and more than three million new accounts last year.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index jumped 130 percent in 2006 after the market made all its shares tradable. It was also buoyed by listings through a raft of big companies.


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