2015–16 Chinese stock market crash

Activity in China's manufacturing sector contracted for a fifth straight month in December, an official survey showed on Jan. 1, reinforcing fears the world's second-largest economy may be stuck in a protracted slowdown despite a flurry of stimulus measures. 

Activity in China's factory sector unexpectedly shrank to a 6-1/2 year low in September, a private survey showed, raising fears of a sharper slowdown in the world's second-largest economy that could spell more turmoil for financial markets.

I started my career as an economist at the Capital Markets Board of Turkey. It was the 1980s. I was fresh out of school and excited to be part of a milestone in my country?s economic policy: opening the Turkish stock market to foreign investors. 

Nervousness was the prevalent feeling across global stock markets, Tuesday following ‘black Monday’ and the panic caused by massive sell-offs of Chinese shares-US stocks dropped by an unprecedented 1,000 points upon opening, finally closing with 600 points lower.

Chinese stocks rose strongly for a second day on July 10, buoyed by a barrage of government support measures, but worries persist about the long-term impact that four weeks of stock market turmoil may have on the world's second-largest economy. 

Chinese stocks plunged on July 8 after the country's securities regulator warned investors were in the grip of "panic sentiment" and the market showed signs of freezing up as firms scrambled to escape the rout by having their shares suspended.