But investors in Singapore's Central Limit Order Book, an offshore market for Malaysian shares, were not so fortunate.
And more than a third of those are frozen in Singapore's Central Limit Order Book, an offshore market declared invalid by Malaysia last year.
In theory, a discretionary central bank could limit the quantity of money and achieve long-run price stability by controlling the growth of nominal final demand.
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The futures market is forecasting that inflation will soon go above 6.5%, the upper limit of the Central Bank's target.
Over the past year, the central government has sought to limit economic overheating with a mix of macroeconomic and administrative measures.
The answer depends on how US economic data, Debt Ceiling Negotiations on the national debt limit, and central bank actions will play out with popular trade strategies like shorting the dollar, buy commodities, and exporters.
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As part of a legal settlement to regain control of 3322.org, founder Peng Yong has given assurances that he will work with Microsoft and China's central computer security agency to limit abuse of the site's domains.
Elsewhere, investors should expect central banks to lower rates to limit currency appreciation.
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Inflation has already overshot the central bank's 4 percent limit for three straight months after bad weather and an avian flu outbreak drove up egg, corn tortilla, meat and bean prices.
But in deflationary Japan there seems to be no limit to the ability of the central bank to print yen.
But, among the possible pitfalls: a government unable or unwilling to meet the conditions of its program, and a central bank that becomes increasingly anxious over time to limit possible losses as it owns a growing proportion of Italian and Spanish government debt.
Michael Beckett, Church Warden of St George's in Hanover Square, said: "Sunday parking charges will seriously damage the spiritual heart of the city, and limit the good works undertaken by all the central London churches".
The federal government may have been point-scoring but its central claim rings true: Pakistan can no longer afford to limit its fight against extremists to the north-west.
He believes that the central bank's new credit guidelines, which include a limit on property lending to one-fifth of outstanding loans, would bring stability in the long run.
If a state violates the limit, it can lose access to funds from the central government.
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But central-government officials have repeatedly pledged that curbs will remain to limit how much the market can heat up.
Guo Shuqing, the head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said that the regulator had already reached an agreement with the Chinese central bank and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to raise the QFII limit.
The Hungarian forint, which moves in a band either side of a central rate against the euro, is trading within a whisker of its upper limit, even after a cut of three-quarters of a point on February 21st.
Bank Indonesia Deputy Director Yunita Resmi Sari said the central bank imposed a minimum down payment for car and motorcycle loans last year to limit banks' credit risk and to ease consumers' debt burden.
When growth and inflation begin to put pressure on yields and the dollar, emerging markets central banks are likely to protect themselves by hedging duration, but they can only limit their currency losses if they actually get rid of their dollars.
It recommended the European Central Bank should cut rates and increase its purchases of government bonds in order to to limit the cost of borrowing for governments.
The government has taken measures such increasing the limit on foreign investment in several sectors to boost the economy, while the central bank cut its policy interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point last month.
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