Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
DJIA	15,303.10	+8.60	0.06%
S&P 500	1,649.60	-0.91	-0.06%
Nasdaq	3,459.14	-0.27	-0.01%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

DJIA

15,303.10

+8.60

0.06%

S&P 500

1,649.60

-0.91

-0.06%

Nasdaq

3,459.14

-0.27

-0.01%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
STOXX 50	2,764.29	-12.49	-0.45%
FTSE 100	6,654.34	-42.45	-0.63%
DAX	8,305.32	-46.66	-0.56%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

STOXX 50

2,764.29

-12.49

-0.45%

FTSE 100

6,654.34

-42.45

-0.63%

DAX

8,305.32

-46.66

-0.56%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
Nikkei	14,612.50	+128.47	0.89%
Hang Seng	22,618.70	-51.01	-0.23%
S&P/ASX 200	4,983.50	-78.95	-1.56%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

Nikkei

14,612.50

+128.47

0.89%

Hang Seng

22,618.70

-51.01

-0.23%

S&P/ASX 200

4,983.50

-78.95

-1.56%

Pakistan Plans to Start Equities Margin Trading Next Month

By Farhan Sharif & Khurrum Anis - 2011-02-18T13:27:24Z

Pakistan’s Karachi Stock Exchange will begin fund transaction from next month, after getting approval from the regulator today.

“The exchange will hold a mock session tomorrow and we will implement margin trading between March 1 and March 7, after a government notification is issued,” said acting managing director Haroon Askari in a phone interview today. “The government approved the rules today.”

The board of the Karachi Stock Exchange proposed the introduction of margin trading in a report to the commission in July, and met with the regulator on Aug. 31.

The practice was abolished when price curbs were imposed in 2008, following the index’s biggest slump in a decade.

To contact the reporter on this story: Farhan Sharif in Karachi at fsharif2@bloomberg.net and To contact the reporter on this story: Khurrum Anis in Karachi at fsharif2@bloomberg.net and

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