A security guard keeps watch outside the entrance to the Shanghai Stock Exchange
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Wuhan is full of surprises this year. It has already given the world coronavirus, which has killed more than 2,600 people.
However, on Monday, the Chinese megacity delivered another vicarious surprise, one designed to instil in investors not deep dread but slight delight.
The day started as they do right now, with most of Shanghai’s 24 million people cowering at home in self-imposed quarantine, but at 9.30am,
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