OSC Imposes Temporary Short-Selling Ban

Bloomberg, Sean B Pasternak & Joe Schneider, 19 September 2008Canada's main stock-market regulator banned temporarily the short-selling of bank and financial stocks following similar moves by U.S. and U.K. regulators.``We will take the appropriate steps necessary to protect our markets and ensure that they are not used for purposes of regulatory arbitrage,'' Ontario Securities Commission Chairman