{"id":4599,"date":"2023-10-16T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:40:15","slug":"china-tightens-short-selling-rules-in-a-bid-to-boost-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"China tightens short-selling rules in a bid to boost stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">China is tightening restrictions on short selling as the country&#8217;s authorities step up efforts to support the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>The Securities Regulatory Commission said it\u2019s increasing the margin ratio for ordinary securities borrowing to at least 80% from 50% and that for hedge funds to 100%, effective Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Other rules that come into force Monday will restrict lending of shares by strategic investors and senior management and increase supervision of \u201cvarious arbitrage activities,\u201d it added in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing is pulling out all the stops to reverse a downdraft in equities after global funds offloaded a record 89.7 billion yuan ($12.3 billion) of onshore stocks via trading links with Hong Kong in August.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign investors&#8217; withdrawal from Chinese assets could be a unique opportunity for local ones, as some of the assets continue to trade at multi-year price lows while the government makes efforts to support the market.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is tightening restrictions on short selling as the country&#8217;s authorities step up efforts to support the stock market. The Securities Regulatory Commission said it\u2019s increasing the margin ratio for ordinary securities borrowing to at least 80% from 50% and that for hedge funds to 100%, effective Oct. 30. Other rules that come into force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}