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By Francine Lacqua and Michael Patterson
(Bloomberg) -- China's stock market may surpass the U.S. as
the world's largest by value in three years as state- owned companies
sell new shares and the nation's 1.4 billion people
put more of their money into equities,
Mark Mobius said.
"The Chinese population is just dipping its toe into equities and
they've got a long way to go," Mobius, who oversees about $25 billion
of emerging-market assets as executive chairman of
Templeton Asset Management Ltd., said in an interview
with Bloomberg Television in London.
State-owned companies are "coming up with more huge"
initial public offerings, he said yesterday.
China's market is valued at $3.2 trillion, compared with
$11.2 trillion in the U.S., according to data compiled
by Bloomberg.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a benchmark for U.S. equities,
has gained 4.1 percent in 2009, while China's 4 trillion-yuan ($586 billion)
stimulus package lifted the Shanghai Composite Index
75 percent this year.
China last month approved its first IPO since September, ending
a nine-month ban by regulators.
Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical Co. and Zhejiang Wanma Cable Co.,
the first two Chinese companies to go public this year,
surged 64 percent and 139 percent, respectively,
since they began trading this month.
Sanjin, China's largest maker of herbal lozenges,
raised 910.8 million yuan in a sale that was 500 times oversubscribed.
Wanma, which supplies cable to the nation's top electricity distributor,
raised 575 million yuan after investors applied
for 638 times the stock available.
'Somewhat Overvalued'
While China's mainland-traded stocks, known as A shares,
are "somewhat overvalued," the market will move higher
as earnings climb, he said.
China's gross domestic product will expand 8 percent this year
as the stimulus package boosts consumer spending, Mobius said.
"We can expect corrections along the way" for emerging markets,
Mobius said. "I would expect a more steady,
jagged movement upwards."
China's stock market overtaking the U.S. "is possible, but I think people
need to understand the difference between the Chinese equity markets
and the U.S. equity markets," said Donald Straszheim,
a former Merrill Lynch & Co. chief economist who runs
Los Angeles-based Straszheim Global Advisors.
State- owned companies "dominate" the Shanghai stock exchange
while the U.S. stock market consists of private companies, he said.
U.S. Decline
The U.S. equity market's value declined 41 percent from a peak
of $19.1 trillion in July 2007 as the nation's worst financial crisis
since the Great Depression dragged down financial
and consumer shares.
New York-based securities firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
and automaker General Motors Corp.
both filed for bankruptcy as credit markets froze.
The U.S. economy is now "out of the woods" and doesn't need
another stimulus package, Mobius said. Russian stocks
are "very undervalued" and should be a "big holding"
for investors as markets recover, the fund manager said.
Stocks and bonds in emerging markets have rallied on speculation
the global economy is recovering.
Bondholders have recouped their losses from the credit crisis
as a rally in debt from Argentina to Ukraine pushed
JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s benchmark EMBI+ Index
to a record today.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index of equities in 22 countries
has climbed 38 percent this year as commodities
that sustain developing economies rose.
That compares with a 6.8 percent gain for
the MSCI index of developed markets.
Stocks in Russia, the world's largest energy supplier, trade
at less than half the price relative to earnings compared
with global peers.
The Micex Index is valued at 7.5 times reported earnings,
compared with 16.1 for the MSCI EM index.
To contact the reporters on this story
: Michael Patterson in London at mpatterson10@bloomberg.net;
Francine Lacqua in London at flacqua@bloomberg.net.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a4.VQEZdQ__M--
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