The frenetic opening of trading accounts and a surge in equity turnover have produced a boom for brokerages that appears to have added more than half a percentage point to China’s GDP growth last quarter. Leaving aside the wider repercussions, any cooling of enthusiasm for equities would create a sizeable drag on GDP.
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