China Construction Bank shares looked as if they were being flipped faster than McDonald's burgers in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Trading volumes, excluding the big sale by Bank of America, were 10 to 12 times typical levels. This is odd. BofA on Tuesday offloaded a $7.3bn chunk of stock in the Chinese lender. The stressed American bank, with an eye to its remaining $15bn CCB holding, did the right thing by China: selling the shares to ostensibly stable investors, including China Life and Temasek Holdings, Singapore's investment arm. So what happened?
中國建設銀行的股票周三在香港易手的速度,似乎比麥當勞漢堡包出爐的速度更快。不計美國銀行(Bank of America)的大宗出售,成交量也達到平常水平的10至12倍。這種情況有點反常。美銀在周二出售了價值73億美元的建行股票。背負重壓的美國銀行,念及自己剩下的150億美元建行股份,做出了中國眼中的正確舉動:將股票出售給看起來比較穩定的投資者,包括中國人壽(China Life)和新加坡投資機構淡馬錫控股(Temasek Holdings)。那么,到底發生了什么情況呢?