Germany Moves to Widen Ban on Speculative Trades

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A week after rattling global stock prices with a unilateral ban on some forms of financial market speculation, Germany went much further Tuesday, proposing a law that would greatly broaden restrictions on several instruments that investors use to bet against stocks, bonds and currencies, The New York Times’s Jack Ewing reports from Frankfurt.

05/20/2010 — Filed under: Finance
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