BEIJING: China and Britain will study linking the London and Shanghai stock markets, Britain’s finance minister George Osborne said Monday despite weeks of plunging prices on the Asian exchange.

Chinese stock markets have been sometimes likened to “casinos” and the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index soared more than 150 percent in the 12 months to mid-June, in a debt-fuelled rally encouraged by authorities.

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