A-share market

13:26 Feb 14, 2012 

Se o texto se refere à China, lá existem dois tipos de mercados de ações, um deles, o A aberto inicialmente apenas para investidores domésticos e o B, para estrangeiros.
"A-share/B-share markets
Mainland China's two stock exchanges, in Shanghai and Shenzhen, both have A- and B-share markets. The key distinction is that A-shares are denominated in renminbi and B-shares in foreign currency (US dollars in Shanghai and Hong Kong dollars in Shenzhen). For a long time, the other main difference between the two, from a regulatory standpoint, was that the A-share market was closed to foreign investors while the B-share market was open only to foreigners. However in 2001, the Chinese authorities tried to boost the B-share market by opening it to individual Chinese investors. And in 2003, a scheme was introduced whereby select foreign institutions were allowed to buy A-shares. Some companies have their stocks listed on both boards, but their B-shares trade at a large discount to their A-shares, which tend to see much larger trading volumes."

http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=A_share/B_share-markets