Chinavestor “Stock of the month” ends up 5.2% in 2005 and is up 55.6% since inception, despite the fact that China’s booming economy failed to translate into stock-market gains.
Defying rises in oil prices and interest rates, Asia stocks rose as domestic economies picked up and foreign funds sought cheap valuations. But the country level performances were far from uniform with indices in the greater China region at the bottom of the list.