[jtfanclub]

Enraged Pakistanis Stone Stock Exchange, Demand Government Make Stocks Go Up
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Traders on Wall Street aren't know for their tranquility. Nor are they known for taking bad news well. But investors in Pakistan today, apparently determined to one-up their Wall Street counterparts, went on a rampage that would make Jim Cramer look like a coma victim.

The Karachi stock exchange suffered its 15'th consecutive day of losses today, having declined 35% since peaking in April. Pakistanis have lost $30 billion in the crash, and traders and investors took to the street today to express their outrage. Bloomberg:

Police surrounded the exchange after hundreds of investors stoned the building and shouted anti-government slogans. They directed their ire at the government and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, which this week removed a 1 percent daily limit on price declines. The measure was aimed at halting a slide that wiped out $30 billion of Pakistan's market value in three months, threatening to undo a 14-fold rally since 2001.

Rioters broke windows and burned shareholder statements, and after one man was injured, the police and paramilitary forces intervened to quell the revolt.

http://www.clusterstock.com/2008/7/enraged...traight-decline

[kenberg]

Financial investors are very realistic and rational people. Also, the moon is made of green cheese.

[Al_U_Card]

At least they have the sense to know on whom to blame it...

[helene_t]

Let's stone the meteorological institute and demand the government supplies better weather.