China's markets drop as Trump presidency looms
China investors expect heavy tariff, tech tensions under Trump
Onshore yuan set for steepest daily fall since June 2023
HK stocks fall more, with technology firms at the fore
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By Summer Zhen and Jiaxing Li
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Nov 6 (Reuters) -China's yuan and stock markets fell sharply on Wednesday as the prospect of another Donald Trump presidency and Republican control of U.S. Congress risked heightened tensions over trade and technology.
By the time Chinese markets closed, Trump had claimed victory over Democrat Kamala Harris in the tight U.S. presidential race.
U.S. stock futures EScv1 jumped and the dollar rose across the board after Republicans won a clear U.S. Senate majority although it won't be clear for some time which party will win control of the House of Representatives.
China's blue-chip CSI300 Index .CSI300 fell 0.5%, while Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng .HSI, which is more indicative of foreign investor sentiment, fell 2.3%.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index .HSCE fell 2.6%.
Hong Kong-listed China tech stocks .HSTECH declined broadly, with e-commerce giant JD.com 9618.HK and Alibaba 9988.HK down 4% each.
The U.S. presidential election will have a meaningful impact on China's economy and capital markets. As part of his pitch to boost American manufacturing, Trump hadpromised voters he will impose tariffs of 60% or more on goods from China.
"Right now, the markets are focusing narrowly on the prospect of tariffs because it is the easiest lever to pull directly under a presidential executive order, but we’ve seen between 2016-20 other levers that can be pulled to contain China," said Rong Ren Goh, a portfolio manager in the fixed income team at Eastspring Investments.
"It can include financial sanctions on Chinese entities, further tightening the screws on Chinese access to technology critical to AI development...the list goes on."
Thus foreign investors are likely to position themselves defensively on any China-related assets, and probably hedge their currency risk, he said.
China's equity market is in the midst of recovering from a years-long slump as authorities promise to address weak consumption and a downturn in the real estate sector. The CSI 300 index is up more than 20% since Sept. 23, when Beijing started rolling out rate cuts and stimulus.
But a Trump win could stymie that rally, with technology, defence and export sectors in the crosshairs of his policies.
Since both Democrats and Republicans are relatively united in antagonism to China, markets may not react dramatically until concrete policy changes areannounced.
"Although both candidates are probably hawkish toward China, Trump is still less predictable in terms of policy, so the prospect of a Trump win could still drag sentiment a bit," said Kenny Ng, strategist at China Everbright Securities International in Hong Kong.
Onshore markets are, however, holding out for more stimulus proposals and details from the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), which meets through Nov. 4-8.
"Onshore investors are more focused on the NPC meeting this week and are waiting to see if there will be more forceful stimulus coming through, which will have a bigger impact on the markets compared to the election," Ng said.
The offshore yuan CNH=D3 fell more than 1% versus the dollar, to itsweakest since mid-August. Its onshore counterpart CNY=CFXS was also down more than 0.8%, and China's major state-owned banks were selling dollars to prevent the yuan from weakening too fast, sources told Reuters.
Trump's proposed tariff and tax policies are viewed as inflationary and therefore likely to keep U.S. interest rates high and undermine currencies of trading partners.
During Trump's first presidency, the yuan weakened about 5% against the dollar during the initial round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018, and fell another 1.5% a year later when trade tensions escalated.
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Reporting by Shanghai and Hong Kong Newsroom; Writing by Vidya Ranganathan; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman, Jacqueline Wong, Elaine Hardcastle
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