{"id":569830,"date":"2010-05-19T05:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T09:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/france-rejects-germanys-naked-short-selling-ban-finance-minister-lagarde-slams-unilateral-move-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-19T05:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T09:35:02","slug":"france-rejects-germanys-naked-short-selling-ban-finance-minister-lagarde-slams-unilateral-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569830","title":{"rendered":"France Rejects Germany&#8217;s Naked Short-Selling Ban, Finance Minister Lagarde Slams Unilateral Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bb07cf37f8b9a2a22b50000-290-217\/christine-lagarde.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"christine lagarde\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the German naked short-selling ban is having fascinating ripple effects already, beyond just the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\">According to CNBC<\/a>, France&#8217;s finance minister Christine Lagarde has come out in rejection of the move, saying the country will not consider similar regulations, and that she &#8220;regrets&#8221; Germany&#8217;s unilateral move on this front.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly you have one of Europe&#8217;s two most important players actively denouncing the other one&#8217;s dumb behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, all of Europe could probably find a reason to be angry at Germany. It was their intransigence that caused the Greek crisis to go on so long, and it&#8217;s Germany that&#8217;s making waves at a time when the market could use calm.<\/p>\n<p>More proof that German leaders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/german-political-and-financial-leaders-have-taken-incompetence-to-a-new-level-2010-5\">have taken political incompetence to an art form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/france-rejects-germanys-naked-short-selling-ban-finance-minister-lagarde-slams-unilateral-move-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\/germans-now-want-all-of-europe-to-adopt-short-selling-rules-speculators-respond-by-hammering-dax-2010-5\">Germans Now Want All Of Europe To Adopt Short-Selling Rules &#8212; Speculators Respond By Hammering DAX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-irony-of-the-euro-crisis-this-is-what-the-world-would-be-like-under-the-gold-standard-2010-5\">The Irony Of The Euro Crisis: This Is What The World Would Be Like Under The Gold Standard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/german-political-and-financial-leaders-have-taken-incompetence-to-a-new-level-2010-5\">German Political And Financial Leaders Have Taken Incompetence To A New Level<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/RysDMnVyFQ4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fallout from the German naked short-selling ban is having fascinating ripple effects already, beyond just the market. According to CNBC, France&#8217;s finance minister Christine Lagarde has come out in rejection of the move, saying the country will not consider similar regulations, and that she &#8220;regrets&#8221; Germany&#8217;s unilateral move on this front. Suddenly you have [&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-569830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569830","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=569830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}