Australia Bans Short Selling

Well we have more at stake than making love to our sheep like New Zealanders

 

Here's a tool that improves ET's Signal-to-Noise ratio:

S/N Tool

S/N Tool (prior version)

 

I think there are precedents for this in asia ~'97

 

I'm already someone else loser

 

Pretty soon France will be the most capitalist country in the world.

 

As they are clearly looking to Pakistan and Malaysia for policy guidance I imagine the next move will be to ban stocks going down and to legislate against any exodus of foreign investors funds.

 

I think it is this risk of further draconian measures that will keep a bid under stocks. Artificial? maybe -but a bid nevertheless.

 

all the want to be gods of politics will just hold up a healthy and necessary recession to become the crashing depression, I say they should at least flip a coin when making major decisions like this, there is much more justification in that method.