{"id":144951,"date":"2020-02-03T23:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=144951"},"modified":"2020-02-04T00:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:56:14","slug":"china-returns-to-business-as-western-markets-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/china-returns-to-business-as-western-markets-rebound\/","title":{"rendered":"China returns to business as western markets rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese markets returned to business after the Lunar New Year. To little surprise, the Shanghai composite plunged 7.72% on its first day back, its sharpest drop in four years. As Chinese authorities race to contain the virus, European markets rose overnight Monday by half-a-percent, and North American indices rebounded sharply, with the Nasdaq climbing 1.34%.<\/p>\n<p>The TSX, which has been less volatile than its New York peers, gained 0.3%, burdened by a 3.2% drop in crude oil. The VIX fell 4.62% to illustrate that investors calmed down over the weekend following Friday&#8217;s sell-off. The rally reached almost across the board. Companies that rely on Chinese consumers enjoyed generous gains. For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/868\/NKE-N\">Nike<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/alphabet-google-q4-earnings-191155754.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bounced<\/a> up 3.08% to settle just below $100 (see our weekly report for more analysis). However, that paled next to <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4017\/TSLA-Q\">Tesla<\/a>. The e-car company soared 20% after one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/tesla-stock-rockets-past-700-after-analyst-sets-new-street-high-target-2020-02-03?siteid=yhoof2&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyst<\/a> increased his price target from $556 to $808.<\/p>\n<p>Earnings season continues. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/67\/AMZN-Q\">Amazon<\/a>&#8216;s revenue disappointed, though it handily beat EPS expectations. Amazon inched down 0.23% Monday and was flat in the immediate after-hours. There was better news at <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/430\/ENB-T\">Enbridge<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/regulators-approve-environmental-review-of-enbridge-s-line-3-1.1384213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota<\/a> approved the expansion of Line 3, delayed after a year. Also, luxury clothing line <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5471\/GOOS-T\">Canada Goose<\/a> soared 4.29% as it announced supermodel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/canada-goose-announces-kate-upton-as-goose-person-300997667.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Upton<\/a> as its new spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f45f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/868\/NKE-N\">Nike Inc<\/a> +3.08%<br \/>\n&#x1f697; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4017\/TSLA-Q\">Tesla Motors Inc<\/a> +20%<br \/>\n&#x1f6cd; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/67\/AMZN-Q\">Amazon.com<\/a> -0.23%<br \/>\n&#x1f9e3; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5471\/GOOS-T\">Canada Goose Holdings<\/a> +4.29%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese markets returned to business after the Lunar New Year. To little surprise, the Shanghai composite plunged 7.72% on its first day back, its sharpest drop in four years. As Chinese authorities race to contain the virus, European markets rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":345019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No","cwp_rev_product_name":"","cwp_rev_product_image":"","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_options":[],"wppr_pros":[],"wppr_cons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}