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Subject Another sell-off caused by China?
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China's stock market tumbles 6.5% after the government increases a tax on stock trading; other markets brace for a reaction. Private-equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners will acquire tech retailer CDW. Pulte Homes cuts jobs.

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MoreInvestors are hoping it won't be deja-vu.

China took another step to reel in its hot stock market, and the country's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 6.5% in trading today, its worst decline since the 8.8% plunge in late February, which sent ripples around the global markets.

"Today's correction in Chinese shares is causing a knee- jerk reaction across Asia," Shane Oliver, money manager at AMP Capital Investors in Sydney, told Bloomberg News. "Markets have become skittish on this type of news given some of the extreme reactions in recent history."


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