Short Race To The Bottom

Posted by Equity Private, Sep 30, 2008, 2:30pm

Yeah, it figures. Taiwan has banned short selling in equities. Period.

The brilliant and original move is aimed at "preventing short-sellers from depressing the market and [at] boosting investor confidence...."

Taiwan, I believe I may have detected the flaw in your plan.

Taiwan bans short-selling on shares of any company [Reuters]

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Tags: Clusterfucks, Short Sell Scapegoat, Taiwan

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 2:39PM

Isn't Taiwan basically a mini-China?

I'm surprised they allowed shorting in the first place...

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 2:39PM

I am a retail broker in VA. What is Taiwan?

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 2:40PM

remain calm .... all is well....

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 2:57PM

I am a Telecom Executive, how do you spell Taiwann?

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 3:04PM

Isn't Taiwan basically a mini-China?

I'm surprised they allowed shorting in the first place...

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 3:19PM

I am a hedge fund manager. What is short-selling?

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 3:29PM

I am the Grand Vicar of Chinese Motherland Politburo Socialist Worker's Party Democratic Republik of Soviet States, what is Taiwan?

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 3:51PM

Actually, China just started permitting investors to short stocks. It is only in the decadent ex-capitalist nations that shorting is banned.

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 3:53PM

This is funny, since China recently allowed short selling for the first time.

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 3:55PM

I'm Chinese. Don't sell yourself short.

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 5:06PM

The fundamentals of this ban are strong

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 5:10PM

Oh woe! Will the lessons of Pakistan go unlearned? That means they burned down their exchange for nothing.

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 6:56PM

Great, now instead of stocks going down we just have Taiwanese hookers.

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Posted by guest, Sep 30, 2008 7:56PM

from the link "The regulator said it would also look into those spreading market talk intended to drag down stocks"

seriously? communists.

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