The German government is planning to ban the naked short-selling of all German stocks listed on the country’s exchanges in a sweeping enlargement of last week’s contentious bar on the naked short-selling of key financial stocks.
The move is part of a national crackdown on financial-market speculation, which Berlin thinks has gone unregulated for too long as European Union and G20 members search for agreement about new rules at an international level.
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