Einhorn Replaces Credit Swaps With Shorts When Betting on Sovereign Debt.

By replacing the swaps with short sales, Einhorn maintained his ability to profit from a sell-off in government bonds while avoiding potential pitfalls that he identified in a July 7 investor letter. Greenlight wrote that regulators were seeking to prevent a triggering of credit default swaps tied to sovereign debt, in part because the payouts could devastate European banks that had agreed to provide the insurance.
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