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Shanghai edged up 0.3%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-05 · market close

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

The Shanghai Composite finished its 4 August session 0.33% higher at 3,822.28, a small gain that left China's main A-share benchmark roughly where it began the week: up 0.24% over the latest five sessions.

That did little to alter a weaker medium-term picture. The index closed below both its 50-day moving average of 3,989.27 and its 200-day average of 4,012.19 — lines chart-watchers use as shorthand for the short-run and long-run trend. It sat 9.91% beneath its 52-week high of 4,242.57 and 5.66% above its 52-week low of 3,617.60. Over one month it was down 5.42%, over three months down 8.12%, and 3.69% lower for the year so far.

Among the markets whose most recent close in this data also fell on 4 August, direction was split. South Korea's KOSPI rose 1.62% and Australia's ASX 200 added 1.4%, Japan's Nikkei gained 0.32%, while Taiwan's TAIEX slipped 0.06% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.6%.

The remaining peers carry the date 5 August — a different trading day, one session ahead of Shanghai's close — so their moves are not a same-session comparison. On that later date the Dow rose 0.75%, the S&P 500 eased 0.14% and the Nasdaq shed 0.64%. In Europe the FTSE 100 added 0.08% and the CAC 40 0.03%, against a 0.29% decline in the DAX and 0.15% in the Euro Stoxx 50. India's Sensex ended 0.19% higher and the Nifty 50 0.04%.

The news attached here pulls in two directions, and none of it is confirmed. A report from finance.biggo.com described A-shares climbing in heavy morning trade, with the Shanghai Composite up 1.34%, the STAR 50 gauge advancing more than 5% and over 3,900 stocks higher. A second finance.biggo.com headline said Shanghai stocks extended gains and briefly reclaimed the 3,900 level after July's non-manufacturing PMI — a survey gauge of activity outside factories — eased worries about the economy. Cutting the other way, the South China Morning Post reported that stock-account openings in China slowed during July amid a technology sell-off, and Reuters carried a report sixteen days ago that the securities regulator had pledged to keep the market stable after a rout.

Neither intraday description lines up with the 0.33% close in the data, and nothing here dates those headlines to the session being wrapped. What the numbers establish is narrow: a marginally positive day, a flat week, and an index below both major moving averages and nearer its 52-week low than its high. What they do not establish is a cause. No breadth, volume, sector or flow detail accompanies the move.

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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.