REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Traders, governors, and members of the New York Stock Exchange discuss what is happening following a halt in trading on the floor of the exchange in New York, July 8, 2015.Trading was halted at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning.The latest from the NYSE is that all symbols are not trading and all open orders are […]
REUTERS/Lucas JacksonMembers of the New York Stock Exchange attempt to figure out what caused a halt in trading on the floor of the exchange in New York, July 8, 2015.The New York Stock Exchange is open after a 3-hour halt.At 11:32 a.m. ET on Wednesday, trading on the exchange was halted after a technical glitch. “The issue we are experiencing is […]
REUTERS/Laszlo BaloghThe men’s 3m springboard preliminary diving competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.Chinese stock markets are in complete collapse right now, with the main Shanghai Composite index losing 30% of its value in just the past three weeks. The turmoil is now starting to spread to other Asian markets and global commodities markets.The reason behind the crash is this: […]
While the World Watches Greece, China’s Stock Market Is Imploding Joshua KrauseThe Daily SheepleJuly 7th, 2015328 views
It had to happen at some point. Just a few weeks ago the Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchanges were collectively worth roughly $10 trillion. Within a single year, the Shanghai Exchange had surged from just over 2000 points, to well over 5000. It was […]
A currency trader walks by a screen showing the Korea composite stock price index at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul. Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP
Share prices were sent tumbling across the Asia-Pacific on Monday after Greece’s resounding no vote in the weekend’s bailout referendum raised fears it could be forced to exit the eurozone.While significant losses had not descended into […]
ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]
ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]
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REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisInside the Athens stock exchange building.It looks like Greece’s stock market is going to be closed for a week. According to a report from the English version of Greek newspaper Kathimerini, the Athens Stock Exchange is going to be closed for a week. Kathimerini reports that, “The Capital Market Commission is expected to announce in the […]
Meanwhile, elsewhere:
SHANGHAI — Share prices in China plunged on Friday in one of the sharpest sell-offs in years, accelerating a downturn this last week in what has been, for much of this year, the world’s best-performing stock market.
China’s two major market indexes fell in tandem. The Shanghai composite fell 7.4 percent on Friday. The Shenzhen composite fell even more, dropping […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were mostly higher in early trading Friday as negotiators continue to work toward a solution to Greece’s debt problems.Chinese stocks plunged 7 percent as fears spread that a yearlong bull rally there has become overheated. The market is up more than 100 percent over the past year.KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 59 […]
