As an alternative to short selling, you can buy a credit default swap, which is a form of insurance on debt-not necessarily your own debt.

作为卖空交易的替代选择，你还可以购买信贷违约掉期。这是债务保险的一种形式，担保的未必是你自己的债务。

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Germany today extended its ban on naked short-selling - trading an asset that one does not own - on financial stocks to the rest of the market.

德国今天扩大了对裸卖空(对不拥有的资产进行交易)的禁令，从股票延伸到金融市场的其他部分。

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He also defended short-selling, arguing that it was a valuable component of financial markets and did not drive companies out of business.

他还为卖空行为做出辩解称，这是金融市场重要的组成部分，并不会导致企业破产。

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Weighing all of the pros and cons, Lee is still not selling America short.

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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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Germany also rattled the markets and its partners by introducing a unilateral ten-month ban on naked short-selling (when securities are sold that are not owned or borrowed, which is the practice in conventional short-selling).

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