Volatile shares seen as greatest threat to China outlook

Equity market price volatility is the greatest threat to China’s near-term economic outlook, according to a recent survey. That was the conclusion of a third of attendees of rating agency Moody’s annual banking conferences in Hong Kong and Singapore this month. The poll results were released yesterday, on the same day that China’s key equity benchmark suffered its biggest one-day fall since 2007. Attendees in Hong Kong ranked “property market weakness” (15%) as the fourth-grea…