After a five-year plunge, we'll finally wriggle out of the pattern this year. Funds are expected to flow into the market as the result of expectation that the stock shakeup will create a better investment scenario.

Promising to float stocks at a premium means if companies want to sell more stocks, they must ensure their market prices are high enough. The move will give public investors a bigger say in the share sale issue.

Raising profit thresholds are in line with the regulator's pledge to help good-quality companies raise capital and upgrade market fundamentals. Investors will be glad to see the market shutting its doors to poor performers.

Optimism abounds on the market. Retail investors expect an influx of funds from institutions and the government to lure overseas-listed blue chips back to mainland markets.

Today, the first auction of 30-year Treasury bonds in (almost) five years is expected to go well.

Funds moved back into technology shares, on strengthening sentiment in the industry.