worth of wealth in that very short period of time. with analysts saying the longer the selloff would go on the more potential consequences it could have for the chinese government itself. take a listen. so far, this crisis or panic is contained in the stock market alone. but if the government cannot rebutte or calm down the market in very short times, weeks or days then this kind of pessimistic sentiment will be easily spilled over to the banking sectors because the leverage i mean the people borrow money to buy the stock, where the money come from? most of them from the banks. reporter: now it s important to note the chinese government has incredible amount of influence on the stock markets here and it s taken a lot of measures over the course of the last few weeks to try to stop
take a listen to what one analyst told us. so far, this crisis or panic is contained in the stock market alone. but if the government cannot rebutte or calm down the market in very short times, weeks or days then this kind of pessimistic sentiment will be easily spilled over to the banking sectors. because the leverage i mean the people borrow money to buy the stock. where the money come from? most of them from the banks. reporter: so here s one of the announcements the government made that will probably be welcomed by many of the retail investors, the government is saying they will investigate malicious short selling and suggesting that big fish who may have been playing with the market betting it would go down further they may be investigated