Taiwan Extends Short-Selling Curbs Amid Market Uncertainties

Taiwan’s financial regulator extended curbs on the short selling of stocks to prevent market volatility amid lingering uncertainties around President Donald Trump’s tariff plans.

The Financial Supervisory Commission reimposed a limit on the volume of intraday sell orders for borrowed securities to 3% of the average daily trading volume of the stock over the previous 30 days, reduced from 30% under normal circumstances, according to a statement Saturday. It’s an extension of a week-long restriction that the regulator had orderedon trading on April 7.

The island’s authorities are under pressure to stabilize markets after the benchmark Taiwan Stock Exchange ...