Hedge Fund Short Positions In Spain Just Disclosed

We have been waiting for Greece to disclose short positions in equities for a while now. The Greek regulatory authority,  Hellenic Republic Capital Market Commission, had banned short selling starting October 31st of last year. Although the ban has been lifted now, we still can't find any short disclosure coming from Greece. Either  Capital Market Commission (HCMC) is not updating (or as Angela Merkel would put it, "Greece is lazy") or no one has a bet that exceeds the threshold of 0.5 percent ownership in the outstanding shares. While we wait on Greece, we thought this would be a good time to dedicate an entire article to listing short disclosures in eurozone's other ailing arm, Spain. We have not covered Spain in...