Investors duck for cover after BaFin bomb
A promising start to the week in private placements was shattered by BaFin’s move on Tuesday evening to ban uncovered short selling of eurozone sovereign bonds, credit default swaps and the shares of 10 German financial companies. Enquiries dissolved as investors feared that the ban was the result of a much deeper problem yet to be made public.
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