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Guest Author - Weekly Commentary on Financial Markets 18 July - 22 July 2011

Another weekly update from Jacob H Schmidt, CEO, Schmidt Research Partners Ltd and FinTuition Hedge Fund course trainer.

Securities Lending Training

Many of you will have seen that my training company, FinTuition was recently appointed to create and teach an introductory securities lending course for the Canadian Securities Lending Association ("CASLA").

Market Manipulation in Italy?

The blame game continues in Italy as the FTSE MIB index fell another 1% yesterday.  Despite the report from a couple of days ago that short selling volumes were insignificant, the Chairman of the Italian regulator Consob apparently asked stakeholders to recall any shares they had lent in Italian companies.  Such a request from the head regulator must surely be respected and according to