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Leading US-based index to include Chinese stocks for 1st time

by Albee Zhang with John Biers in New York Agence France-Presse SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — China on Wednesday hailed the acceptance of its stocks in a leading United States-based index of emerging market shares as a signal of confidence in the Asian power’s economy after three previous rejections. The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets opened higher after New York’s MSCI agreed to include 222 large capitalization Chinese stocks in its MSCI Emerging Markets Index, representing […]