Also pressuring the market are expectations that funding conditions in China's short-term money market will get tighter toward the end of the year, when demand for cash typically surges for gift purchases and bonus payment, analysts said.
Insofar as I in the past had thought about the Valentine's Day formula, I had assumed most men treated it like a year-end performance bonus, which would mean that the better the relationship, the better the gift (however you define "better").