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originally deposited and any profits you might have made. This is not a recommendation to offer

to buy, sell, or retain any specific investment or service. For the past couple of years, the FT's China Chief Joe Lay says that China's economy has been in a tough place.

Things have been looking pretty bleak in China. Ordinary people have been hit by a real estate slump.

Many local governments which actually drive China's economy have not been paying salaries and

suppliers. Even the better off have been feeling pretty bad.

At the end of September this year, there weren't many signs that this was going to change.

That is, until one Tuesday, September 24th.

China announced a massive monetary stimulus package that sent everyone's interest

in Chinese stock soaring again. The market basically went crazy. I mean, if you look at the chart

from that day, it's vertical cliff. After Chinese stock spent years in consistent decline,

millions of retail investors pile back in.

The CSI 300, which is the benchmark stock index in China, just went straight up.

What a week for China, right?

This week marked the biggest single week again in nearly 16 years.

I think by the end of that first week, it was up around 24%.

It even shut the stock exchange down for a little while.

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