SHANGHAI: China stocks firmed on Monday, with the tech-heavy start-up index hitting its highest level in more than four-and-a-half years on hopes of earnings improvement.
At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was up 1.77% at 3,443.29, while the blue-chip CSI300 index was up 2.1%.
The start-up board index led gains, rallying 4% to its highest since Nov. 26, 2015. It climbed 12.8% in the previous week, its best since its launch in 2010, and has gained 61% so far this year.
"We expect evident marginal improvement in start-up companies' results in the second quarter, given the low earnings base in the same period last year and as their earnings growth slowed significantly in the first quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak," Zheshang Securities wrote in a report.
Investors also cheered Beijing's continued support to bolster its economy.
China's policy steps to support the economy have gained obvious results and it will step up financial support for firms and employment in the second half, a central bank official said on Friday.
New bank lending in China rose 22.3% in June as authorities continued to boost credit and ease policy to get the world's second-largest economy humming again after a sharp coronavirus-induced contraction.
China will show "zero tolerance" towards securities and accounting fraud and will step up a crackdown on major capital-markets crimes, financial regulators said after a meeting of the Financial Stability Development Committee.
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