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In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index added 0.4 per cent to 24,595.51 points.

– Kuala Lumpur’s main index rose 1.37 percent, or 23.22 points, to close the day on 1,723.14. The Nasdaq composite rose 17.05 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,128.78. Margin debt surged fivefold over the preceding 12 months, propelling the Shanghai Composite to a 150 per...

The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 115.51 points to 24,619.45, on turnover of HK$115.27 billion (S$20.3 billion).

Japan’s core consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.1 percent on-year in June , a tad above the 0.0 percent forecast in a Reuters poll.

Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 were both about 2.5% lower, while the U.K.’s FTSE 100 was down 1.3%.

Market sentiment elsewhere has also been struggling in recent days, with US indices dropping by just over 2% last week and the FTSE 100 also falling back once again.

S&P 500 futures dropped 0.3 percent and Dow futures fell 0.4 percent. Germany’s DAX.GDAXI fell 0.6 percent to 11,534 points and France’s CAC 40.FCHI was down 0.5 percent at 5,079 points.

The impact on Chinese investors is direct, but for investors in the US, Europe and elsewhere, it’s not as simple.

Short-selling is the selling of stock a trader does not own, in anticipation of a future fall in prices.

As for Greece, as Ambrose Evans-Pritchard noted in The Daily Telegraph, we may have reached “a cataclysmic end that nobody planned, nobody seems able to escape, and that threatens to shatter the great European order in the process”. However it’s unlikely to...

China’s CSI300 index was up 1.6 percent and the Shanghai Composite Index had gained 0.6 percent. An estimated 80 percent of transactions on Chinese stock markets involve such investors, many of whom tend to make investment decisions based on price movements rather than on...

Officials say investors are unable to buy or sell securities at this time.

By Ken Sweet, The Associated Press on July 8, 2015.

He said in a statement: “Irrational sell-offs have increased greatly and that has led to a liquidity tension in the stock market”.