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In just 24 Minutes.....just 24.
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 Quote:The decline of Hanergy Thin Film Solar Group Ltd. was as spectacular and inexplicable as its ascent.
Just 24 minutes of Hong Kong trading erased $18.6 billion of market value and wiped out almost four months of gains that made it more valuable than Sony Corp. of Japan. Those increases came as analysts and investors questioned why, exactly, this stock was increasing in the first place. Sound familiar?
The maker of solar equipment controlled by Li Hejun suspended trading after the stock plummeted 47 percent in the morning. Discussion of what triggered the move emerged after trading halted.
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has been probing market manipulation in Hanergy’s shares for several weeks, Reuters reported late Wednesday citing an unidentified person. Ernest Kong, a spokesman for Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, declined to comment to Bloomberg.
Chairman Li, who is also the biggest shareholder, didn’t attend an annual meeting in Hong Kong on Wednesday, T.L. Chow, the company’s external spokesman, said by phone. “All directors of listed companies take part in setting the dates of their shareholder meetings, and they should attend,” said David Webb, shareholder activist and founder of Webb-site.com. “If a chairman of a mainland company did not show up in Hong Kong for the AGM, then it raises questions.”
The stock fell to HK$3.91 before the suspension at 10:40 a.m., shaving HK$144.3 billion ($18.6 billion) off its market value.
Peak Value
Before today’s decline, the stock had surged more than sixfold in the past year despite questions from analysts and investors about the company’s revenue sources. About 61 percent of Hanergy Thin Film’s sales come from Beijing-based parent Hanergy Holding Group, the listed company said in March.
The company’s first statement Wednesday didn’t give a reason for the suspension. A subsequent statement from Hanergy Thin Film said the stock has been suspended pending “an announcement containing inside information.” Hanergy uses a niche technology in the photovoltaic industry, where more than three-quarters of all panels are based on solar-grade silicon. Thin film cells are more flexible but less efficient than crystalline silicon-based panels.
Prior to Wednesday’s plunge, Hanergy Thin Film’s market value had at one point risen to more than HK$300 billion. That’s larger than Sony and almost seven times the size of First Solar Inc., the biggest U.S. solar company.
The rest of the articlePerfect pump and dump! "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore .
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