India’s options trade faces a less lucrative reset
India is moving to make stock trading less like a game, opens new tab. Officials are planning more stringent margin and disclosure rules in the country’s equity derivatives market, which has become the world’s largest, opens new tab by volume of trades. Tightening the screws should help protect small-time traders and pre-empt a wider bust, at the expense of slimmer […]
China’s property measures give sales a boost, but only in big cities
China’s latest property support measures have boosted transactions in its biggest cities, but activity in smaller localities is struggling to get off the ground, pointing to more pain ahead for most of the country’s real estate market. On May 17, China cut minimum mortgage rates and downpayments and instructed municipalities to buy unsold apartments to turn […]