Chinese retail investors who have seen this month\u2019s tit-for-tat trade war wipe trillions of yuan from the value of the stock market are rushing to ask companies to disclose their business exposure in the United States.<\/p>\n
Their anxiety spread on official investor relations platforms and in online communities, with questions directed to Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed firms about the exact impact of the trade war on company finances and proposed remedial measures.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust how much are the tariffs affecting the company? It\u2019s time for the board secretary to speak up,\u201d an investor said on Eastmoney Guba, a popular online community for small investors.<\/p>\n
\u201cHas the Thailand factory started mass production? What\u2019s the share of the US market coming from Thailand versus China? These are the questions shareholders care about most!\u201d<\/p>\n
China has more than 100 million retail stock investors \u2013 equivalent to the combined population of the United Kingdom and Canada \u2013 and they are particularly vulnerable when markets are volatile.<\/p>\n
Public companies often reveal location-based revenue and overseas investment projects in quarterly, interim and annual reports.<\/p>\n
Investor anxiety has been heightened by recent sharp swings in markets across the globe related to tit-for-tat tariff volleys by the US and China, the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese retail investors who have seen this month\u2019s tit-for-tat trade war wipe trillions of yuan from the value…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[10738,51,1395,32,10744,2441,10739,10741,10743,479,1219,16,15,49,10740,10742],"class_list":{"0":"post-15767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-a-share-market","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-investor-anxiety","13":"tag-markets","14":"tag-retail-investors","15":"tag-shanghai","16":"tag-shenzhen","17":"tag-tariffs","18":"tag-trade-war","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-us-exposure","23":"tag-zoomlion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114329192177957028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}