Central Banks Scramble To Stabilize Crashing Markets: China Fails, Switzerland Succeeds (For Now)
- Central Banks Scramble To Stabilize Crashing Markets: China Fails, Switzerland Succeeds (For Now)
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
Following a week in which the Chinese stock bubble popped and a weekend in which the Eurozone bubble followed, it was all up to central banks to stabilize the devstation that would follow should the Plunge Protection Team, now global, not show up.
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And while US equities futures were looking grim overnight, China at least started off on the right foot, rising a little over 2% in early trading following China’s scramble to stabilize markets as it knows the alternative could very well be (deadly) civil unrest. And then something unexpected happened: the market did not follow the Chinese central bank script. In fact, as noted earlier, stocks plunged tumbling as much as limit down for CSI-300 futs, and the SHCOMP crashing the most since 1996.
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