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Feb 24, 2012

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End of the short selling ban regarding Spanish and Italian securities of the financial sector

As a supplement to Eurex circular 027/12 about the end of the short selling ban regarding French securities, we would like to point out that on February 15, 2012, also the Spanish supervisory authority CNMV announced that the short selling ban regarding Spanish securities of the financial sector was lifted effective February 16, 2012. The official communication can be accessed on the CNMV website (www.cnmv.es) under the title „The CNMV lifts the preventive ban on establishing or increasing short positions on Spanish financial stocks”.

The short selling ban regarding Italian securities of the financial sector imposed by the Italian supervisory authority CONSOB expired on February 24, 2012. For more information, please refer to the press release of January 11, 2012 on the CONSOB website (www.consob.it) under the title „Short selling: extension until February 24, 2012 of the restrictions on net short positions on securities of the financial sector”.

For direct access to the documents, please click here:
http://www.cnmv.es/Portal/verDoc.axd?t={583919b4-255b-4547-bcb2-9571b9abcd09} http://www.consob.it/mainen/press_release/comunicato_20120111.htm

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