Europe plans ban on naked short selling
Steve Johnson and Baptiste Aboulian
Financial Times, 23 May 2010
European politicians have proposed a complete ban on naked short selling, significantly widening the scope of the clampdown implemented last week by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
Naked shorting is already banned in the US, Hong Kong, Australia and Brazil, but the idea of a complete European-wide ban is likely to provoke controversy in some quarters.
