Monday, July 21, 2008

19 financial instituions one cannot Short sell

The government has basically admitted that these institutions are going to lose money by banning "naked short selling" on them. Given they are all financial institutions, I thought ward members might be interested in the list:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/07/sec-restricts-shorting-19-financial.html

Regular short sellers (not naked short selling) are betting $1 trillion on stocks going down

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601213&sid=abz3Png6wvrM&refer=home

The difference between Naked and Regular short selling:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502829.html

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