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China’s Pledged Shares: Upcoming Crash Or Non-Event?

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Rupert Hargreaves
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October 2018 has become a month most traders and investors would rather forget. In just a few weeks the S&P 500’s gains for the year have been wiped out, and some of the market’s highest flying tech stocks have quickly fallen back to Earth.

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The sell-off isn’t limited to US equities. Investors around the world are suffering particularly in China, where equity values have nosedived. Government efforts to stem the decline have, so far, failed to persuade investors, worried about a slowing economy and the impact of US tariffs, to stop selling.

Over the past two weeks alone, the benchmark CSI 300 index, which tracks large-cap shares traded in Shanghai and...

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