Italy & Spain bans short selling.

[Grandluxe]

Italy bans stock short-selling as market plunges
8:31 a.m. Monday, July 23, 2012
The Associated Press

MILAN — Italy's financial markets watchdog on Monday imposed a ban on the short-selling of shares as the Milan stock index plunged amid fears over the country's financial stability.


European shares extended their losses on Monday as a move by Spain to ban short-selling on all Spanish securities raised fears that the region's sovereign debt and banking crisis may be worse than expected.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/23/markets-europe-stocks-fall-idUKL6E8INBDD20120723

 

[tortoise]

Never works. When will regulators learn?

 

[justrading]

Pass me another roll of duct tape please.

 

[clacy]

LOL that's hilarious. As if it's that easy

 

[kmgilroy89]

Nothing like inflating your stock markets to pretend like your economy hasn't gone off a cliff.

 

[Random.Capital]

Here we go again...

 

[justrading]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/07/euro-crisis-4?fsrc=nlw

 

[clacy]

Quote from kmgilroy89:

Nothing like inflating your stock markets to pretend like your economy hasn't gone off a cliff.

There still has to be buyers to bring the prices higher. I really don't think short sellers have much if any influence on the long term price performance of markets.

 

[FreakofNature]

Anything that's easy becomes illegal.

 

[S2007S]

This is a joke right?