Six EU states to scrap bans on short-selling shares

LONDON (Reuters) - Six European Union states will scrap bans on short-selling shares introduced during bouts of extreme market volatility in March when national lockdowns were rolled out across the bloc to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.The bloc's securities watchdog, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), said Austria, Belgium, France, Greece and Spain have decided not to renew short-selling bans that expire at 2159 GMT on Monday.French markets watchdog AMF said that since the..