Is Weakness In China's Financials ETF A Harbinger For The Shanghai Index?

China's Financials ETFGXC, has plunged dramatically since January of 2021, in contrast to China's Shanghai IndexSSEC, which is teetering on the brink of a downdraft, as shown on the following monthly comparison chart.

Extreme volatility began in GXC in March of 2020, relative to the SSEC, when the WHO declared COVID-19 a "pandemic" (March 11)...following its declaration of the virus as a "public health emergency of international concern" on January 30.

This dramatic and volatile trend reversal in China's financial sector may signal forthcoming weakness and produce problems, in the near term, and, possibly in the long run, for its equity sector, namely the Shanghai Index.

By the way, my post of September 15, 2021, described financial weakness in GXC pertaining to China's second-largest property developer, Evergrande Group (and its major debt obligations and defaults)...thereby, possibly, triggering a negative event in China's Shanghai Index, and, even, other world markets.

Combine those issues with 

and you have a worldwide financial catastrophe waiting to happen.

Keep an eye on this comparison for clues on a weakening SSEC, as well as the above global issues.

Disclaimer: All of my posts (and charts) contain solely my own technical analyses/opinions/observations (which may contain errors or omissions) of a variety of markets and are ...

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