{"id":569832,"date":"2010-05-19T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/germans-now-want-all-of-europe-to-adopt-short-selling-rules-speculators-respond-by-hammering-dax-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-19T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T09:06:00","slug":"germans-now-want-all-of-europe-to-adopt-short-selling-rules-speculators-respond-by-hammering-dax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569832","title":{"rendered":"Germans Now Want All Of Europe To Adopt Short-Selling Rules &#8212; Speculators Respond By Hammering DAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b155dd40000000000a7a48d-318-238\/german-stockbroker.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"german stockbroker\" width=\"318\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After hastily announcing new regulations to go after short-sellers yesterday, German leaders have quickly realized the folly of country-specific regulations within the EU. Nothing&#8217;s to stop traders from going after these various instruments in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>So now they&#8217;re on a campaign to get the rest of Europe on board. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-19\/germany-wants-u-k-to-join-short-selling-ban-cdu-lawmaker-says.html\">Bloomberg<\/a>, Deputy Finance Minister Hans Michelbach is pushing the UK to join in, and then, hopefully the rest of the EU. Somehow we&#8217;d be surprised if the UK succumbed to this nonsense, given its desire to keep its place as a pre-eminent financial city. But stupider things have been done.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, investors have responded by hammering the German stocks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/markets\/stocks\/movers_index_dax.html\">The DAX is off 2.7%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/germans-now-want-all-of-europe-to-adopt-short-selling-rules-speculators-respond-by-hammering-dax-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\/rQg548PtfeM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hastily announcing new regulations to go after short-sellers yesterday, German leaders have quickly realized the folly of country-specific regulations within the EU. Nothing&#8217;s to stop traders from going after these various instruments in other countries. So now they&#8217;re on a campaign to get the rest of Europe on board. According to Bloomberg, Deputy Finance [&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-569832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569832","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=569832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}