Country X' s recent stock-trading scandal should not diminish investors' confidence in the country's stock market  For one thing, <b> the discovery of the scandal confirms that Country X has a strong regulatory system </b>, as the following considerations show  In any stock market, some fraudulent activity is inevitable  If a stock market is well regulated, any significant stock-trading fraud in it will very likely be discovered
This deters potential perpetrators and facilitates improvement in regulatory processes
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