Four European Countries Issued A Ban On Short Selling Of Bank Shares To Boost European Banks' Share Price

France, Italy, Spain and Belgium are among the four European Union countries.

European, stock markets such as Britain, France and Germany continue to rebound after 11 days of rising.

At the time of press release, the financial times 100 index rose 1.69% to 5250.02 points, the German DAX index rose 2.51% to 5943.37 points, and the French CAC-40 index rose 2.09% to 3154.13 points.

After the 11 day closing of the European stock market, France, Italy, Spain and Belgium announced that they would "sell short" financial stocks in the domestic market in the next 15 days.

Countries such as the United States, Britain and Holland have said there is no plan to follow up the ban on their stock market.

From the 12 day's actual operation, France, Italy, Spain and Belgium have a slightly different "short selling" ban.

In France and Belgium, the "short sale" prohibition does not cover financial derivatives, while Spain has introduced financial derivatives into the "short sale" ban.

The four countries

Some analysts pointed out that the background of the ban was the recent sell-off of French banking stocks and the market panic.

Panic has pushed up interbank lending rates in Europe and led to increased mutual distrust among banks.

From the historical experience, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank, Europe implemented the short selling ban in September 2008, but it only had a certain effect in the short term.

Abraham Livy, a professor of nice business school in France, is not optimistic about short selling.

Abraham Livy said: "this is the worst measure that has been taken.

It seems to be signaling the market that something must be wrong. "