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Basic investment courses advise stock buyers to avoid weak markets like the ones much of the world is seeing right now, including a Hong Kong stock market now trading at lows not seen since 2011. But online investment councilor JF Wealth Holdings seems to be ignoring that kind of basic principle it usually provides to its customers.
The company that dubs itself as China's leading online investor content provider defied the current market malaise by filing for a Hong Kong IPO last Wednesday, its third such try after failed attempts in August last year and March this year. It seems nobody told the company that market sentiment has cooled considerably since those last two tries.