KOSPI (S.Korea) down more than 4%. Remember they banned short-selling last week

When you ban short-selling on particular stocks, the other stocks in that exchange always take the banned selling blow. It's a useless plunge protection strategy & creates a short-sellers heaven since it is an admission by the market reg that they are not in control. Suspending the market (circuit breaker) or platform failures are better cool off ways. Korea should put up a suicide alert as the weeks of stock plunge has wiped a lot of wons in the financial firms esp brokerage & hedge funds...
http://www.forexpros.com...-futures-streaming-chart$15/barrel oil... The commodities lehman moment arrives as well as Sovereign debt volcano!