"It was done for political purposes not technical purposes--that is absolutely clear. It was done to show people they were clamping down on speculation in order to get political votes through to approve an E.U. bailout regime."
--Sharon Bowles, chair of the European Parliament's influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, on Germany's decision to ban naked CDS trading on eurozone sovereign bonds.
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