Taiwan tightens short-selling limits and raises margin requirements
Taiwan’s financial regulators announced that, starting next Monday, the daily intraday securities-borrowing sell-order cap will fall from 30% to 3% of each stock’s average daily trading volume over the preceding 30 business days. The minimum margin requirement for short sales of listed and over-the-counter securities will rise from 90% to 130%. The National Financial Stabilization Fund was also authorized to deploy funds as needed for market stabilization.