Germany bans some forms of short selling-BBC

Tweet 5/19, "The German financial regulator has banned traders in the country from "naked" short-selling of euro-denominated government bonds and of shares in the country's 10 most important financial institutions.

• Short-sellers usually borrow shares, sell them, then buy them back when the stock falls and return them to the lender, keeping the difference in price.

"Naked" short selling occurs when a trader sells a financial instrument that has not yet been borrowed."...