EU to ease market rules to help COVID hit companies - documents

The European Union will propose "quick fixes" to liberalise its capital markets rules in coming days, which it says are aimed at encouraging investment in companies hurt by the coronavirus crisis, EU documents showed on Wednesday.The package will include looser rules on the funding of broker research into small and medium sized companies and the lifting of restrictions on trading energy derivatives.The changes also mirror a string of quick fixes in banking rules to ensure the continued flow of c