South Locomotive jumps 58 percent in Shanghai debut

China South Locomotive jumped 58 percent in its Shanghai stock market debut on Monday, buoyed by a low IPO price and its dominance in China's train manufacturing sector, after it raised $1.5 billion in Asia's third-largest share offering this year.
But analysts said China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp's strong performance would not do much to reverse the trend of the country's overall stock market, which has fallen 62 percent from its peak last October. South Locomotive, the country's largest train maker, had scaled back the size of its dual Hong Kong and Shanghai offering and set the price low as it confronted a weak market.