Carl Icahn Claims Goldman Wronged Him In Short Sale
Carl Icahn's High River Limited Partnership has struck back at Goldman Sachs Group, saying a lending unit of the investment bank owes High River $30.8...
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Investors: Beware the Quackery of Economic Goats, Whitewashers and Charlatans
Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
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Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.
Short-Selling (VIDEO): Did It Contribute To The Market's Collapse?
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
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Let's get our bearings here. What is short-selling? NYU Professor of Finance Steven Figlewski can explain: "You sell the stock with the expectation, ...
Goldman Sachs Defends Trading Practices: Dark Pools, Flash Trading, Short Selling
Telegraph | James Quinn, US Business Editor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
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In a document handed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the investment bank asserts that such practices, some of which the SEC is loo...
How to Sell Your Maidenhead
E. Jean Carroll | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
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Why should I waste my purity on a "meaningful" college boyfriend or a saggy sugar daddy when I can receive a pot of gold all in one go?
Wall Street Is Right -- This Time
John Standerfer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
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In this post-Madoff environment, where the SEC needs all the credibility it can muster, it's critical that the agency not provide a knee-jerk response to every whim of the media and politicians.
Roiling On The Rivers Of Real Estate
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
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There's definitely a bottom to the real estate market, but the bottom is not clearly visible through yesterday's floating wreckage and today's murky transactions.
Stiglitz And Chanos Argue For Short Selling (WATCH)
The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
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Scroll down for video Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Jim Chanos, president of Kynikos Associates, one of the largest short selling...
Short Seller Goes Long on the Future
Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.01.2009 | Business
Over the last 10 years Robert Wilson has given away about $500 million to various charities and he figures he has at least another $100 million to go.
SEC chief says new short-selling rules a priority
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday she is making the issue of new rules restricting short-selling a pr...
Short Sellers Returns: Selloff Of Bank Stocks In Wake Of Stress Tests
Bloomberg | Edgar Ortega and Elizabeth Hester | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Short sellers, the bane of Wall Street executives last year, are back. The number of Citigroup Inc. shares borrowed and sold s...
S.E.C. Proposes New Curbs On Short-Selling
New York Times | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business
Seeking to restore investor confidence in the markets, securities regulators made several proposals on Wednesday that would restrict investors from be...
SEC: Short Selling Curbs Out For Comment
Reuters | Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to issue proposed curbs on short selling, including...
Uptick Rule: SEC Considers Reinstatement
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators opened a public debate Wednesday over ways to restrict trades that bet against a stock, as investors and lawmake...
SEC: Short-Selling Rules May Be In The Works
bloomberg.com | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering dictating when traders can bet that stocks will fall, after lawmaker...
Stop the Short Sellers
Amy Ephron | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
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Not to sound like Pollyanna but it's time for some old-fashioned values and common sense. Invest in something you can believe in. Don't create a toxic environment where people can profit from failure and loss.
Samantha Bee Explains Short Selling (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.17.2009 | Comedy
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Since the economic downturn, everyone has been talking about short-selling, a practice that bets on the failure of American institutions. It has been ...
At Last, Steve Forbes and I Agree
Kay Koplovitz | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
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Get rid of onerous mark to market accounting rules, institute the uptick rule for short sellers and enforce rules for naked short selling
Morgan Stanley's 13% Payout Offer To Short Ford Stock (EXCLUSIVE)
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business
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Morgan Stanley was offering Ford shareholders a highly unusual deal on Monday. Two days before Ford announced a major debt restructuring that diluted...
Short Sellers Moving On To "Safe" Companies
247wallst.com | Douglas A. McIntyre | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
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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, thos...
South Dakota's Bid To Take Over For The SEC And Other Ballot Measures
Wall Street Journal | Dionne Searcey and Easha Anand | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
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Perhaps no state has tapped into the current zeitgeist better than South Dakota, which proposes banning a maneuver some federal officials say contribu...
What Is A Naked Short?: Short-Selling Definitions
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business
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During the present economic crisis, the American public has been pelted with terms like "credit default swap" and "naked shorting," which are enough t...
Short-Selling Ban Expiring: Did It Change Anything?
DealBook | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business
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Few expect their return, on its own, to spark another precipitous plunge in the stock market. Financial shares have plunged 23 percent since the ban w...
Some Firms Request To Be Removed From Short-Sell Ban List
Clusterstock | John Carney | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business
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The no-short-selling list created by the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to change, as do the rules themselves. On Monday Diamond Hill In...
WSJ Editorial Board Hits McCain For Cox Threat: "Deeply Unfair ... Un-Presidential"
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board finds John McCain's sudden economic policy shifts less than inspiring: John McCain has made it ...
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