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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (150763)	2/12/2002 1:38:02 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I had the article on the bottom of my post this morning. Message 17045057 Shiokawa said he wanted the body to start buying stocks in earnest as early as next week. ``We must halt this fall in shares. It's like diarrhoea, we must stop it,'' Shiokawa told a news conference. Shiokawa said he wanted the Ministry of Finance to provide two trillion yen ($14.96 billion) to the state stock-buying body to buy shares from banks. An official source said Shiokawa apparently was referring to the entity's two trillion yen of financing guaranteed by the government. Shiokawa also said Japan should make a strong statement against speculative stock market trading such as short selling, in which traders sell shares they do not own with the aim of buying back later at a cheaper price.