{"id":569224,"date":"2010-05-18T14:45:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dow-off-triple-digits-as-german-short-selling-restrictions-officially-go-into-effect-until-3312011-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-18T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:45:32","slug":"dow-off-triple-digits-as-german-short-selling-restrictions-officially-go-into-effect-until-3312011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569224","title":{"rendered":"Dow Off Triple Digits, As German Short-Selling Restrictions Officially Go Into Effect Until 3\/31\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf10b6e7f8b9a7519730600-270-202\/deutsche-mark-coin-germany.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Deutsche Mark coin germany\" width=\"270\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is starting to look like a gigantic unforced error on the part of Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p>The new short-selling restrictions are out, and apparently they extend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/107400\/all\/german-regulator-officially-announces-ban\">all the way until March 31, 2011<\/a> as a response to volatility in the bond market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/merkel-shortselling-2010-5\">We really have no idea what Angela Merkel is thinking<\/a>, but if the idea was to reduce volatility, it seems safe to say that it&#8217;s already failed badly.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow is off about 100. The NASDAQ is off 38.<\/p>\n<p>Next up the euro crashes through 1.22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dow-off-triple-digits-as-german-short-selling-restrictions-officially-go-into-effect-until-3312011-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/merkel-shortselling-2010-5\">Does This Woman Have Any Idea What She&#8217;s Doing?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-rogers-on-max-keiser-2010-5\">Jim Rogers: Unfortunately For Governments, The Market Will Win And It Always Does<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/selling-in-stocks-and-euro-intensifies-as-rumors-of-german-government-short-selling-ban-spreads-2010-5\">Selling In Stocks And Euro Intensifies, As Rumors Of German Government Short-Selling Ban Spreads<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/vZFQiCWqlr4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is starting to look like a gigantic unforced error on the part of Angela Merkel. The new short-selling restrictions are out, and apparently they extend all the way until March 31, 2011 as a response to volatility in the bond market. We really have no idea what Angela Merkel is thinking, but if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}