Athens Stock Exchange moves to ban short selling; cites market conditions

[ASusilovic]

history repeats....

 

[ASusilovic]

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Greece's market regulator banned on Wednesday all short-selling of stocks listed on the Athens Exchange for the next two months, after local equities suffered a string of sell-offs in recent weeks as fears over the nation's debt crisis escalated.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/greece-bans-short-selling-for-two-months-2010-04-28

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from ASusilovic:
Greece's market regulator banned....all short-selling of stocks....

1) Do they have any inverse-leveraged-ETF's that they are unaware of?
2) Are you looking at property on the southern border of Albania or Macedonia as an investment?

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

If history is any guide, this means they will have a gigantic stock market crash within the next 6 months

 

[shortie]

they've just signed their own death warrant.

dead man walking :eek: