China stocks continue to slide

A stockbroker prints the day’s transaction list at the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited in Hong Kong. Hong Kong stocks closed at a 6-month low as jitters from the mainland market spilled over across the border.

A sign on Beijing Financial Street. China stocks took another plunge as the securities regulator warned the market was in the grip of “panic” selling after fresh government moves failed to arrest a rout that has now infected regional markets.

Paramilitary policemen patrol in front of the People’s Bank of China, the central bank of China.

Pedestrians walk past an electronic board showing the closing trade numbers of the Hang Seng Index in the Central district of Hong Kong.

A stock investor checks prices in a brokerage house in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province. China’s benchmark index fell by 5.9% today.

Traders work at Hong Kong’s Stock Exchange in Hong Kong.

Stockbrokers work in front of a screen displaying share prices at the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited in Hong Kong.