Excerpt from The U. S. Market Security Act of 1997 S. 1315: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session on S. 1315 The Hong Kong market then continued to fall, and soon similar drops followed in the American stock markets as well as those in J apan, South Korea, England, Australia, German Mexico, France, and others. The Washington Post linked all of t ese drops to the bad news coming from Asia, along with the generally overvalued stocks present for months in the market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.