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What can policymakers do now?

The failure of Saturday’s policy moves to lift equity prices for more than a few minutes at the start of trading today has focused attention on what else policymakers might do to support the markets. The lesson from China’s last equity bubble is that, once sentiment has soured, policy interventions aimed at shoring up prices have only a short-lived effect.


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