Bears circle Samhallsbyggnadsbolaget

Some of the stockmarket's most ferocious bears have pounced on Samhallsbyggnadsbolaget, a Sweden-listed property company also known as SBB.

People following the situation said that almost 10pc of SBB's shares are already on loan, potentially to short sellers of the stock.

Quite why these bearish types have begun to to target SBB - a Nordic property company focused on residential and social infrastructure properties - remains to be seen...