{"id":247691,"date":"2026-01-16T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:45:08","slug":"china-vows-tighter-market-oversight-as-stock-benchmark-nears-decade-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247691\/","title":{"rendered":"China vows tighter market oversight as stock benchmark nears decade high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING\/SHANGHAI, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s securities regulator vowed to step up market monitoring and crack down on excessive speculation, as the country&#8217;s benchmark stock index hovered near a decade high with record turnover this week.<\/p>\n<p>\n              The statement came after Chinese bourses said on Wednesday that they would raise the minimum margin requirement for new borrowings to 100% from 80%, effective January 19, a move approved by the regulator and aimed at cooling the red-hot market. <\/p>\n<p>\n              The Shanghai Composite Index has gained 6% over the past month.<\/p>\n<p>\n              The China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement it would carry out timely counter-cyclical adjustments and strengthen supervision over trading activities and information disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>\n              The regulator also said it will crack down on illegal activities such as excessive speculation and market manipulation, aiming to sustain the market&#8217;s positive momentum. <\/p>\n<p>\n              Recent weeks have seen hectic trading in sectors such as artificial intelligence, aerospace and robotics, prompting risk warnings from listed firms. <\/p>\n<p>\n              Onshore share turnover hit nearly 4 trillion yuan on Wednesday, the highest on record.<\/p>\n<p>\n               (Reporting by Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo in Beijing, and Li Gu in Shanghai; Editing by Jacqueline Wong, Elaine Hardcastle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING\/SHANGHAI, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s securities regulator vowed to step up market monitoring and crack down on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-247691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}