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Shanghai edged down 0.3%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-04 · market close

Shanghai Composite closed at 3,822.28 on 2026-08-04, edged down 0.3% on the session and is -3.7% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Shanghai Composite closed its 31 July session at 3832.26, a gain of 0.72% on the day. That left the benchmark of mainland Chinese listings marginally higher over the week, up 0.47%, so the day's advance did little more than recover ground lost earlier in the same five sessions.

Stepping back from the single day, the picture is heavier. The index sat 9.67% below its 52-week high of 4242.57 and 6.95% above its 52-week low of 3583.31, closer to the bottom of that band than the top. It also finished beneath both of the trend lines chartists watch most: its 50-day moving average of 4001.94 and its 200-day moving average of 4013.11, which are simply the average closing levels of the past 50 and 200 sessions. Over one month the index was down 4.88%, over three months down 6.7%, and down 3.44% for the year to date.

Peer markets in the pack are not all quoted from the same trading day, so these are each market's most recent close rather than a single shared session. As of the same 31 July date, the Hang Seng added 0.1%, the Sensex 0.21%, the Nifty 50 0.27%, the CAC 40 0.28%, the DAX 0.07% and the Euro Stoxx 50 0.21%, while the FTSE 100 slipped 0.27% and Taiwan's TAIEX jumped 7.98%. The US benchmarks are dated 3 August, with the Nasdaq up 2.13%, the S&P 500 up 1.48% and the Dow up 1.32%. Three markets are dated later still, on 4 August: the ASX 200 rose 0.98%, while the Nikkei fell 1.81% and South Korea's KOSPI dropped 6.49%.

On the news side, the pack offers context rather than a clean cause. A report from finance.biggo.com, dated roughly 20 hours before this pack was assembled, described the STAR 50 index of Chinese tech listings falling 3.73% in a morning session, with nuclear power and smart grid names resisting the decline. Older items point to a rough recent stretch: Reuters reported about two weeks ago that China's securities regulator had pledged to maintain stability following a market rout, and the South China Morning Post reported around the same time that state-backed insurers were adding long-term positions in Chinese stocks. A TradingView report from roughly six days earlier described South Korea's market falling 10% as chipmakers slid, which sits alongside the KOSPI figure above.

None of that establishes why the Shanghai Composite rose on this particular day. The data shows no single obvious catalyst for the 0.72% move, and the honest reading is narrower: a modest up day inside a market that remains below both its major moving averages and negative on the month, the quarter and the year so far.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.