China bans big shareholders from cutting stakes for next six months
Thu Jul 9, 2015 4:26am IST
SHANGHAI | By Samuel Shen and Brenda Goh
Investors look at computer screens showing stock information at a brokerage house in Shanghai, China, July 8, 2015. Reuters/Aly Song
China's securities regulator took the drastic step of ordering shareholders with stakes of more than 5 percent from selling shares for the next six months in a bid to halt a plunge in stock prices that is starting to roil global financial markets.
[ though it would be tough for all i believe the abyss is overstated.. for Greece, for the EU and for the world .. e.g. China is more of a worry for Australia ]
Europe's bankers fear Brexit more than Grexit
Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:31pm IST Related: Business, Economy
FRANKFURT | By Thomas Atkins and Steve Slater
The British Union flag and European Union flag are seen hanging outside Europe House in central London June 9, 2015. Reuters/Toby Melville
The possibility of Britain leaving the European Union sometime in the future worries European bankers a great deal more than the prospect that Greece might be on its way out soon.
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