China's slow post-Covid recovery could be a lasting headwind for its stock market.
With the mainland's two largest indexes — the Shanghai Composite and the Shenzhen Composite — each negative so far in 2024, KraneShares Chief Investment Officer Brendan Ahern thinks government stimulus is necessary to kick-start the country's stock market performance.
Ahern, whose firm runs the KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB) , added that Chinese households are still reluctant to spend at pre-pandemic levels.
This week's post-earnings plunge in PDD Holdings is emblematic of China's consumer pullback, according to Ahern.
Ahern returned to the idea that a top-down economic recovery might be necessary to stimulate China's tech sector in particular.
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China's, Brendan Ahern, CNBC's, we've, Ahern
Organizations:
Shenzhen, CSI China Internet, country's National Bureau, Statistics, Holdings
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