Critics say the SEC has been dragging its feet on tighter rules on short-selling.
More than even the SEC's ban on short-selling bank stocks, which expires at 11:59 p.m.
Furthermore, the price of financial stock actually stabilized after the short-selling ban was lifted.
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But for those with the conventional wiring of the nervous system, nothing is quite like short-selling.
It should make for some great short-selling opportunities among the tablet component makers later this year.
They compared the short-selling activity to downgrades by analysts at 14 of Wall Street's biggest brokerages.
This year, the government's assistance has taken the form of stricter rules on short-selling.
With naked short-selling, a trader has almost limitless ability to hammer a stock into the ground.
The nation has already banned so-called naked short-selling, where investors do not borrow the shares.
Even the short-selling ban should have an impact (although, it is likely to be temporary).
Compounding this lunacy was the SEC's inexplicable failure to enforce the rule against "naked" short-selling.
But short-selling should not be assisted by regulation any more than buying long should be advantaged.
They will continue short-selling bans, push for FTT and harsher regulations on banks and trading.
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Thus far, short-selling serves as more of an insurance policy for AIM than a big moneymaker.
On Wednesday, the SEC responded with three new rules aimed at curbing abusive short-selling.
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"Naked" short-selling is when a trader sells financial instruments he has not yet borrowed.
In this case, the focus was more on the trading of the unregistered securities than on the naked short-selling.
Critics have blamed nefarious naked short-selling for driving many stocks into the ground last year.
The state is probing naked short-selling, which is the practice of selling shares short without borrowing them.
Pecora immediately broadened the Senate investigation from short-selling to all Wall Street behaviour, starting with City Bank.
Mr O'Riordain refused to comment on Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's attacks on short-selling "spivs and speculators".
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), which, I'm sure, are short-selling targets.
He singled out technical obsolescence as his single-best source of short-selling ideas over the last 10 years.
That suggests that short-sellers have been selling shares without actually borrowing them--a controversial practice known as naked short-selling.
It does not help that many countries impose restrictions on short-selling (the ability to bet on falling prices).
That plus market-to-market accounting, no short uptick rule, and no ban on naked short-selling, led to the avalanche.
"We know that the practice of short-selling evokes strong opinions from both its supporters and detractors, " Schapiro said.
Steve Forbes: But naked-short-selling to the lay person sounds like you're selling, you've not even borrowed what you're selling.
Still, short-selling bans seem to have a neutral, even slightly negative effect, on the stocks it tries to protect.
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Naked short-selling can result in the same share being lent to more than one trader, creating phantom share entitlements.
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