{"id":883,"date":"2016-01-04T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/china-starts-2016-with-a-stock-market-crash-and-america-is-really-worried\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T23:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:40:18","slug":"china-starts-2016-with-a-stock-market-crash-and-america-is-really-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/china-starts-2016-with-a-stock-market-crash-and-america-is-really-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"China starts 2016 with a stock market crash &#8212; and America is really worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China-stock-market-3\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA0L2VjL0NoaW5hc3RvY2ttLmZlNWJkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/d8184e1b\/588\/China-stock-market-3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=China+starts+2016+with+a+stock+market+crash+%E2%80%94+and+America+is+really+worried&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fchina-2016-stock-market%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fchina-2016-stock-market%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In the Chinese calendar, 2016 will be the year of the monkey. It may also be the year where China has to address the monkey on its back.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s stock market has opened the year with a crash, opening up a new frontier of nervousness about one of the world&#8217;s most financially powerful countries. Chinese consumers play a big role in fueling sales of of fashion, technology, and cars, so many international companies from <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/27\/apple-iphone-sales-china-earnings\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apple<\/a> to Burger King carefully watch the country to watch their own prospects. A Mashable explainer on China&#8217;s economic troubles <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/07\/27\/shanghai-china-stock-market\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fears, which started last summer, started anew when the Shanghai Composite Index \u2014 China&#8217;s equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average \u2014 dropped 7% on Monday, which then created a global downturn in stocks <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/04\/china-2016-stock-market\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/china\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apple\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/china-stock-market\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">China Stock Market<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/naR6FDFFmKc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Chinese calendar, 2016 will be the year of the monkey. It may also be the year where China has to address the monkey on its back. China&#8217;s stock market has opened the year with a crash, opening up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/china-starts-2016-with-a-stock-market-crash-and-america-is-really-worried\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,124,330,377,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-business","category-china","category-china-stock-market","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}