Mainland A-shares closed lower: Shanghai Composite -0.59%, Shenzhen Composite Index -2.05%, ChiNext -3.32%, STAR 50 -2.3%. Market breadth was weak with more than 4,700 stocks down. Electronic components and board suppliers led losses, with several names hitting daily limit-downs. The compute-hardware segment opened slightly higher then slid, with multiple suppliers plunging. Film and cinema chains outperformed, including several limit-ups among Hengdian, Jinyi and China Film and broad gains acro

Mainland A-shares closed lower: Shanghai Composite -0.59%, Shenzhen Composite Index -2.05%, ChiNext -3.32%, STAR 50 -2.3%. Market breadth was weak with more than 4,700 stocks down. Electronic components and board suppliers led losses, with several names hitting daily limit-downs. The compute-hardware segment opened slightly higher then slid, with multiple suppliers plunging. Film and cinema chains outperformed, including several limit-ups among Hengdian, Jinyi and China Film and broad gains across the sector. Pork processors and listed banks were active: pork producers hit limit-up and Qingdao Bank and Jiangsu Bank reached record highs.