France, Belgium, Italy and Spain have decided to temporarily ban short selling to calm the financial markets in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Measures banning this risky stock market technique, which consists of betting on the fall of a share, had already been taken at the time of the financial crisis in 2008.
The French authority, the AMF, announced on Tuesday 17 March a temporary 24-hour ban on short selling for 92 stocks. A measure welcomed by the French Finance Minister, Bruno...