SEOUL : South Korea’s financial regulatory agency announced on Friday a series of measures aimed to stabilise the local stock market, saying they would take effect next week for three months.
From next Monday, stock brokerage houses will be exempted from a requirement to hold 140 per cent or more worth of stocks for credit provided to their customers, the Financial Services Commission said in a statement.
From next Thursday, listed companies will be allowed to buy more of their own stocks from the market per day than they can now, it also said.
These measures would be effective for three months, it added.
