HUGE CRASH – 1.3 TRILLION wiped out from the Chinese stock market. The AI bubble has already burst?

• Mainland’s AI-heavy STAR50 index down 40% from July high
• Collapse could scuttle tech fundraising, new listings
• Valuations still lofty vs US, pointing to further losses

Oct 26 (Reuters) – While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.
The meltdown, tanking the mainland STAR50 index (.STAR50), opens new tab of AI and semiconductor leaders ​by 40% in less than four months and vaporising some $480 billion in market value, is an ill omen for wobbly world markets and a dampener on China’s efforts ‌at encouraging its savers into stocks to fund the AI boom.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/