Shanghai Stocks End Year Higher as H Shares Sink Most in Asia
- Chinese share performance diverges for first year in a decade
- Mainland equities stabilize after $5 trillion summer rout
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For Chinese stocks, 2015 was a year of turbulence and divergence.
The Shanghai Composite Index gained 9.4 percent in its second annual advance, after government intervention to end a $5 trillion summer rout helped stabilize the world’s second-largest equity market. A gauge of Chinese shares traded in Hong Kong tumbled 19 percent, the most in Asia, as foreign investors turned bearish on the nation’s earnings prospects amid a deepening economic slowdown.