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...simply responding to calls to stop the slide in certain stocks - Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack put in a personal call to the SEC - isn't necessarily the best policy. Short sellers, as anyone in finance will tell you, often provide very useful early signals about the weakest players in the market. And there is little rigorous data on whether bans on short selling broadly, or specific modifications to how it's conducted (like whether a stock must tick up before a short can go in), truly reduce volatility in markets. Little wonder that many market observers, including former Federal...
...which most recently include massive loans provided by the Federal Reserve and other central banks—has calmed markets somewhat, Harvard’s money managers wrote in their annual letter to investors last week that they are “keenly aware” that the slide in the capital markets may continue...
...fund may have been conservative in terms of the stocks it holds (China Telecom and Bank of China, among others), but it hasn't been safe. China's stock markets have fallen by 63% this year. Alerted to the severity of the slide by one of her investment-club friends, Zhu checked on the mutual fund earlier this week as Shanghai's stock index plunged below the 2,000-point level for the first time in nearly two years. Zhu was stunned to see that her investment had lost nearly...
...overlords in Beijing, claimed Shanghai's Communist Party boss and a substantial portion of the city's ruling elite. Shanghai's benchmark stock index has plunged to its lowest point since late 2006, and even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real-estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting of the Olympics by Shanghai's northern rival only added insult to injury, even if local papers hastened to note that Shanghai's athletes broke more world records than those from any other Chinese city...
...iconic Kingdom Tower, the prince (a nephew of King Abdullah) seems a world away from the tumult in New York City. But a giant TV screen in his office was tuned to CNBC, and he conceded that his personal worth may have taken a hit with the stocks slide, though he stressed that he was doing well with investments closer to home...