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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10439

27 August 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/finance
Short selling restricted in five countries

Brussels, 26/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - Five EU member states (Belgium, Spain, France, Greece and Italy) decided on 25 August to continue to restrict short selling of national financial securities (in close cooperation with the European Securities and Markets Authority, ESMA). They took the measures last week and they were initially planned to last a fortnight during the sound and fury of the turbulence on the stock exchanges over the summer, fed by fears about lack of financial solidarity...