China "National Team" Rescues Stocks As Downgrade Crushes Commodities
Iron ore led a slump in industrial commodities after Moody’s Investor Service downgraded China’s credit rating and warned that the country’s debt position will worsen as its economic expansion slows. However, one glance at the divergence between industrial metals' collapse and the sudden buying panic in Chinese stocks confirms what Asher Edelman noted yesterday about the US markets, China's so-called "National Team" was clearly intervening...