And while they're at it, they should restore the stock up-tick rule for shorting equities--that is, no short selling of a stock unless the price has moved up.

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That plus market-to-market accounting, no short uptick rule, and no ban on naked short-selling, led to the avalanche.

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In anticipation of further market declines, Germany announced that it would no longer allow naked short selling of its Euro-denominated bonds.

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On the other hand, numerous short selling bans have seen no such recovery, and in many cases seem to have had no impact on downward moves whatsoever.

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The SEC should be criticized severely for doing away with the uptick rule on short-selling--no shorting of a stock unless it has moved up in price--and for its failure to enforce rules against naked short-selling--requiring a short seller to first borrow a stock before he shorts it.

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For Gazprom, there is no alternative, in the short-to-medium term, to selling its gas to Europe and Turkey.

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There's also no word from Obama-ites about reinstalling speed bumps to short-selling.

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Well, no, not really, for shares of financial companies in markets which did not ban short selling also rose.

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