By Peter Elstob
LONDON, Aug. 15 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – The bans on short-selling the shares in a number of banks and insurance companies (and one stock exchange) that four member states imposed on Friday did not bring the single European rulebook any closer.
However, the European Commission will be hoping that the separate initiatives by the Belgian, French, Italian and Spanish market regulators, which came out of “coordinated discussions” during a conference call on Thursday evening involving all 27 members of the European Securities and Markets Authority, do not put it further away.
Some of the details of each national action are set out below, and they do indeed appear to be harmonised, at least to an extent. More detail, and also any updates to the lists of issuers included, should be sought on the respective regulators’ websites.
