Banking shares: Regulators ‘increasingly attentive’ to role of short-sellers in possible 2008 repeat

U.S. federal and state officials are assessing whether “market manipulation” caused the recent volatility in banking shares, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the White House vowed to monitor “short-selling pressures on healthy banks.” Shares of regional banks resumed their slide this week after the collapse of First Republic Bank, the third [...]