Shuli Ren, Columnist

Watch China Inc.’s Insider Selling

Billions in cash from abroad won’t move the needle. Look instead at what company management is doing.

February 28, 2019 at 10:00 PM UTC

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February 28, 2019 at 10:25 PM UTC

Shuli Ren is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian markets. A former investment banker, she was a markets reporter for Barron’s. She is a CFA charterholder.

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Foreigners are finally warming to China.

It’s no surprise: In just two months, the country’s stock market has done a 180. Investors from abroad were net buyers of more than 120 billion yuan ($18 billion) of shares this year through Hong Kong’s Stock Connect. In hindsight, MSCI Inc.’s decision to include mainland stocks in its benchmark indexes last May seems like a wise one.