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...wedding party breaks out into a choreographed dance (a la the JK Wedding Entrance Dance). We’re glad they ignored Jim and Pam and went ahead with this. Especially because it prompted this gem from...
...wedding party breaks out into a choreographed dance (a la the JK Wedding Entrance Dance). We’re glad they ignored Jim and Pam and went ahead with this. Especially because it prompted this gem from...
...mitigate the risks, GEM will require higher disclosure levels from its companies and promises to intervene if prices rise or fall too steeply. It will order a 30-minute trading suspension if a newly listed company's share price changes by 20% from the IPO price, and then a second 30-minute timeout if the price moves by another 30% upon resumption...
...private-sector enterprises. If SMEs are to tap the capital markets for steady and sustainable financing, investors must be willing to support them for the long term. Unfortunately, the market's current get-rich-quick mindset cannot be changed overnight. Hong Kong, a more mature financial center, launched a GEM board 10 years ago. It has not been a notable success, with just 172 companies and total market capitalization of $11 billion - equal to 0.6% of the main board...
...Board in Shenzhen is doing better, having listed 293 firms with total market cap of $80 billion, equivalent to about 11% of the main board's. Still, the odds are that GEM and other initiatives may not do much to help China's private sector. The country's rulers may yet be forced to move more aggressively to stop state-owned enterprises from sucking up all the oxygen in the banking system, and do so sooner rather than later...