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No matter how far down bank stocks go and how hard regulators try to keep short sellers out of financial shares, some of the smart money is willing to gamble that the fortunes of the sector will get...
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Short sellers are still betting that financial shares will fall but they have boldly moved into shares of companies which are considered healthy, those with both good balance sheets and relatively...
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For the period ending October 15, short sellers got out of most banks and brokerage stocks. That is a shame for them. They could have made a killing this week. The short interest in Citigroup (C)...
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The ban on short sales in financials and companies tied to financials has ended. Beginning this morning, investors will be able to bet against these companies. While the experiment was meant to...
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Many traders and short sellers have loved targeting solar power and other alternative energy stocks. Interestingly, bets against these companies have not risen dramatically even though many of them...
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As you will see below, there were many key changes to short sales in oil stocks. Some of these would have been expected to have gone up because oil was so weak. But there were many surprising...
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The cut-off for the last short interest data was September 15, before a number of financial stocks got protection from the SEC. Before the ban, short sellers were already moving out of some bank and...
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Frankly, we think the ban on short sales is not the right way to run a free market. But it doesn’t matter what we think. These are the new rules, but they do not always make sense. Consider the...
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There was a perverse honor in being a short-seller. It was an honor among thieves, but the group usually made lots of money by taking significant risks. Short-selling was based on one of the...
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There are two compelling arguments against suspending short selling completely, even if it is for only a brief period. The first is that a free market allows investors to make money by betting that...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced new measures this morning to curb naked short sales. The rules impose a firm close-out requirement on short sellers and their brokers. Parties...
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With the trends seen lately in communications equipment and data providers because of telecom spending dropping, it is no huge surprise that the short selling has been increasing in some of the...
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Many traders and short sellers have loved targeting solar power and other alternative energy stocks. What is interesting is that the bets against these companies did not show a larger increase...
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There was a very mixed bag in short selling in the semiconductor sector. What was interesting was the huge increase in the bets against NVIDIA because it was so far after the drop. Most...
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Unfortunately there is no real clear trend in the Internet sector stocks in the short selling from mid-August to late August as you will see below. Internet ...
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