What is sending the Shanghai market surging?

By Max Mason
Updated December 9 2014 - 6:18pm, first published 5:59pm

A margin loan-fuelled scramble for Chinese equities has sent the Shanghai market to its highest level since 2011 as investors search for a new source of profit amid a slumping property market and reforms opening up the financial sector.

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