The hapless club

12 October 2011 By John Foley, Edward Hadas

Investors were unmoved by a pledge from Beijing to buy bank shares. In 2008, a similar statement pushed equities up 10 percent in a day. The long global crisis has shown the limited ability of governments to deal with financial tensions. China no longer looks like an exception.

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