{"id":569242,"date":"2010-05-18T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/selling-in-stocks-and-euro-intensifies-as-rumors-of-german-government-short-selling-ban-spreads-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:16:00","slug":"selling-in-stocks-and-euro-intensifies-as-rumors-of-german-government-short-selling-ban-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569242","title":{"rendered":"Selling In Stocks And Euro Intensifies, As Rumors Of German Government Short-Selling Ban Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: the government has confirmed a naked short selling bond in certain securities. The euro has fallen below $1.23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original post<\/strong>: There are headlines coming out of Germany that the government may institute a short-selling ban.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/article\/germany-ban-short-selling-midnight\">ZeroHedge<\/a> cited a Reuters article saying that a short-selling ban would apply to stocks and bonds.<\/p>\n<p>But according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexlive.com\">ForexLive<\/a>, the report indicates that it&#8217;s a <em>naked<\/em> short-selling ban.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also chatter that Merkel may push for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/107375\/all\/merkel-pushing-for-transaction-tax-as-well\">transaction tax at the G20 meetin<\/a>g.<\/p>\n<p>We have no idea what&#8217;s actually going to happen, but things have deteriorated in the last several minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow is off 57.<\/p>\n<p>The euro may soon slide below $1.23.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf2cb0f7f8b9adf3ac50200-523-322\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"523\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/selling-in-stocks-and-euro-intensifies-as-rumors-of-german-government-short-selling-ban-spreads-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/QYbfWYc4egw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: the government has confirmed a naked short selling bond in certain securities. The euro has fallen below $1.23. Original post: There are headlines coming out of Germany that the government may institute a short-selling ban. Earlier, ZeroHedge cited a Reuters article saying that a short-selling ban would apply to stocks and bonds. But according [&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-569242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569242","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=569242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}