摘要：On 18 September 2008 we introduced temporary short selling measures in relation to
stocks in UK financial sector companies on an emergency basis.We did this at a time of
extreme market turbulence, manifested in the forms of high and prolonged price
volatility and downward pressure on the prices of financial stocks in particular.We were
concerned by the heightened risks of market abuse and disorderly markets posed by
short selling in these conditions. The temporary measures effectively banned the active
creation or increase of net short positions in the stocks of UK financial sector companies
and required disclosure to the market of significant short positions in those stocks.
