Being bearish on China may not turn out to be wise, but it does require some ingenuity. Shorting domestic stocks is illegal. Futures and options markets for equities either do not exist locally or barely trade. It is possible to buy credit-default swaps (cdss), a form of insurance against default, on China's sovereign debt, but few think that would really go belly-up anyway. A pair of widely circulated reports on how to hedge a downturn, written in April by Goldman Sachs (stamped "highly confidential") and Morgan Stanley respectively, spell out some of the alternatives for investors.
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