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I took an investments class as my last class before I graduated. In the class I finally began to understand how someone can short sell a stock, fundamentally.
As everyone knows, short selling a stock means that when the stock price goes down, you’re making money…basically. …

Federal regulators today made a rule permanent that was originally just an emergency rule that was meant to reduce abusive short selling during the stock market’s largest drops. The SEC announced that the action was targeting those who do “naked” short selling, which was expected …

Short selling isn’t bad. It’s a good way to recover losses or gain an opportunity in the market. Short sellers have a bad reputation. Short selling can be likened to betting against the team you think will lose the World Series. Short sellers sometimes do …

The head of the SEC, Mary Schapiro, said that next week the SEC will propose a reinstatement of the “uptick” rule.
The uptick rule was eliminated by the SEC in 2007. It required short sellers to sell their shares at a price above a stock’s most …