Stock Market Hits A New High. Too Bad for the NASDAQ and NYSE!

Shares have jumped to another one-year high! Not in New York or London, of course. The action is now in Shanghai. The market there is up 61% this year alone!

China is finally feeling bullish about the stock markets once again. Just last September, Chinese regulatory authorities suspended all new IPOs following a 60% plunge in the stock market. Now the ten-month blackout is coming to an end, signaling a potentially major shift in investor sentiment. Initial public offerings are in the works for Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York.

Shanghai Trumps New York

During my high-speed tour of China it has been impossible to ignore the contrast between America’s slump and China’s ongoing boom. Everywhere from Hong Kong to Beijing, the signs of growth are simply impossible to miss. Construction cranes dot every skyline, and city stores and streets are jammed.

Billionaire George Soros may be politically controversial in America but his financial track record is still very impressive. He made a fortune by betting against an overvalued British pound and he was among the first to predict the U.S. financial crisis, caused by what he called a credit “super bubble.”

The U.S. auto industry is still reeling from the latest, most unexpected chapter in the Chrysler/GM bankruptcy saga. Now the iconic American brand, Hummer, is being sold to a virtually unknown Chinese company from earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province. The buyer, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company is based in Chengdu and it has no experience in auto manufacturing.