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Govt measures to prop up stock market raise PetroChina's volatility
Published Mon, Aug 3, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Hong Kong
PETROCHINA Co has about 11 billion barrels of oil reserves, half a million employees and sales that exceed the annual economic output of South Africa. Not too long ago, stats like that were important to traders of PetroChina shares. Now, they could hardly matter less.
As state-linked funds intervene to prop up the nation's sinking stocks, PetroChina has transformed into a speculative bet on how much money t…
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