1. China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 1.5 percent year on year in November, up from a rise of 1.3 percent in October, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Wednesday.
2. China's producer price index (PPI), which measures wholesale inflation, dropped 5.9 percent year on year in November, official statistics showed on Wednesday.
3. China's margin trading on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses reached 1.16 trillion yuan as of Tuesday. Of the total, the margin trading balance on the Shanghai bourse stood at 683.5 billion yuan, and margin trading balance on the Shenzhen bourse stood at 472billion yuan. Outflow of funds for margin trade business on two bourses has been seen for five consecutive days.
4. Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses recorded 339,800 new investors last week (November 30-December 4), down 6 percent from the preceding week, according to statistics published by China Securities Depository and Clearing Co., Ltd. (CSDC) on Tuesday. Last week, a total of 22.36 million investors participated in stock trading, accounting for 23.01 percent of the total.
5. China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges posted a net margin deposit inflow of 309.3 billion yuan last week (November 30-December 4), sharply expanding from 46.7 billion yuan seen in the previous week, according to statistics from China Securities Investor Protection Fund (SIPF). The net margin deposit inflow last week also marked the highest weekly rise in the past five months, said SIPF.
6. Stocks traded on China's Shanghai bourse saw net selling of 3.91 billion yuan by HK investors under Shanghai-HK stock connect by market close on Tuesday, leaving the balance of the 13-billion-yuan daily quota for HK investors to trade the northbound stocks at 13.391 billion yuan. Meanwhile, a total of 1.025 billion yuan of the 10.5 billion yuan daily quota for the northbound investors to trade HK-listed stocks were used by the market close, representing 90 percent of the total.
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