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...Beijing certainly isn't backing off. Earlier this month, China announced it would proceed with a trial period allowing domestic financial institutions to experiment with short selling and margin trades (using borrowed money to invest). The decision came, ironically enough, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission had for a time banned short selling of a variety of financial stocks - a controversial move that critics believe was a simple case of finding a scapegoat in the midst of market chaos. "It was a little signal that Beijing has a plan - a slow, methodical plan to reform their markets - and they...
Only seven months ago, Ma Ying-jeou was elected president of Taiwan by the largest margin of victory in the nation's history, and a big reason was his bold plan for linking Taiwan more closely to China. Ma believes that improved relations with a rapid-growth China will boost the island's own sagging economy. His program also lent hope that tensions could be reduced between Taiwan and China, which still regards Taiwan as a renegade province and claims sovereignty over the island. In a flurry of new policies, Ma opened Taiwan to Chinese tourists and investors and launched...
...have poured money into Lampson re-election efforts-the latest numbers from the Federal Election Commission showed him with about $900,000 on hand, roughly triple what Olson has left. A poll released this week by Zogby International gave the clear advantage to Olson by a whopping 17 point margin, but Lampson's campaign has taken issue with the geographic sampling in the poll and claims their own internal polls show the race to be a dead heat. And indeed while most national pundits say Lampson is facing an uphill battle, some observers closer to home say he shouldn...
...meantime, traders are dealing with price swings the best they can. Blocks of shares bought and sold have grown smaller, as traders shy from committing too much of a position at one time, lest they pass up a better price later. As margin calls and redemptions from mutual and hedge funds drive trading particularly wild in the opening and closing minutes of most sessions, algorithm-based traders are rewriting programs to squeeze their moves into increasingly narrow bands of time. "It may be good, it may be bad, but I don't thank any of us can stop it," said...
Though stock exchanges are trying to, at least at the margin. Reto Francioni, CEO of Deutsche Borse, a stock exchange in Frankfurt, described how volatility disruptions now kick in hundreds of times a day. When a stock's price jumps outside of its proscribed range, word goes out and trading switches over to an auction format for about five minutes to give all the market participants a chance to regroup, process any new information they might have - and to prevent the volatility from feeding on itself. "When markets aren't acting rationally, it's healthy to slow them down," said...