More from Xinhua, via Reuters:

  • China securities regulator relaxes rules on margin trading
  • China securities regulator amends rules including margin trading asset threshold for individual investors
  • China's securities regulator to allow stock brokerages to issue bonds to widen funding channels

(note .... news from the China Securities Regulatory Commission announced at around 1040pm Beijing time last night)

  • China Securities Regulatory Commission said it would cancel a rule that said investors needed to make additional guarantees if the ratio of capital they borrowed from brokerages reached 130 percent of warning levels
  • Also .. individual investors that held less than 500,000 yuan ($80,634) of securities assets, which had been a minimum threshold for margin trading, could continue trading

Regulators have made late-night announcements twice this week in the wake of big falls on local stock markets