What Happens If Chinese Firms Are Kicked Out Of The U.S. Stock Market

What Happens If Chinese Firms Are Kicked Out Of The U.S. Stock Market

An investor watchs the electric board in a stock market in Huaibei, Anhui province, east China on ... [+] 20th Feb 2016.The CSI300 index and the Shanghai Composite Index ended down 0.1 percent at 3,051.59 points and 2,860.02 points, respectively (Photo by Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images)



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An important battle is developing between U.S. financial regulators and their Chinese counterparts. At stake are hundreds of Chinese public companies with over one trillion dollars worth of shares trading in the U.S. that are threatened with “delisting” from U.S. stock markets. That is, they may be kicked off the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The headlines have it that the Chinese companies have cheated, somehow. Colluding with Beijing, and helped