• 30 Sep 2008 at 2:30 PM

Short Race To The Bottom

By Bess Levin

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]

Comments (13)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 2:39 PM

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

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 2:40 PM

    remain calm …. all is well….

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 2:57 PM

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

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 3:04 PM

    Isn’t Taiwan basically a mini-China?
    I’m surprised they allowed shorting in the first place…

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 3:19 PM

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

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 3:29 PM

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

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 3:51 PM

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

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 3:53 PM

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

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 3:55 PM

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

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 5:06 PM

    The fundamentals of this ban are strong

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 5:10 PM

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

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 6:56 PM

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

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | September 30, 2008 at 7:56 PM

    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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