When Icahn went on Bloomberg TV Thursday and criticized his old foe for his very public shorting of Herbalife, it reignited the feud.
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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.
So paradoxically, the banning of shorting could leave the price of financials lower than it would otherwise be.
Therefore, Feldstein recommends shorting the credit of JFE Steel via its credit default swaps.
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What makes shorting Nokia ahead of the quarterly report hazardous right now is that the Windows weakness is widely signaled and understood by investors.
Still pending are cases against brokers and hedge funds for shorting the shares of weak companies and against Ford Motor for rollover accidents caused by the Explorer.
But before you start shorting the stocks of stodgy old companies slow to the Net, consider that it will be some time--a long time--before e-commerce really pays off across Asia.
Let's legalize naked shorting as a way of making the stock market more efficient.
One rainy day, they sat under the wavering glow of a shorting light fixture while Obie feebly complained about how little Julian was paying him.
Similarly, a fund-management house could be embarrassed if shares in its long-only, retail business were being torpedoed by hedge funds shorting them on behalf of the fund firm's rich customers.
At the same time, 147 million shares are currently on loan for shorting, or 28% of the total.
The DTCC has been the target of 14 lawsuits by companies accusing it of facilitating naked shorting, though all but three have been dismissed.
The last time Fosheim appeared in FORBES was in a July 2007 article titled "Shorting Skyscrapers" that warned of a pending crash.
After criticizing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke exhaustively, the head of DoubleLine suggested shorting Chipotle, a stock the Greenlight Capital chief has targeted in the past.
The hedge fund manager, presented as a man who made his first billion shorting subprime, also spoke of a new project, not yet public, called LightSquared.
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Traders were shorting some 43 million shares of JPMorgan as of mid-December (down from 47 million the month before) and 50 million shares of Citi (up from 40 million the month earlier).
Already absurd situations have arisen: somehow IBM, a technology company, has managed to get on the list of stocks protected from shorting.
Unfortunately, there is currently no exchange-traded fund available by which you can efficiently capture the group effect of owning (or shorting) the full investment grade or speculative grade sample.
The e-mails also suggest close commercial links between the two firms and at least one trading outfit that was a target of regulatory probes into shorting violations, SBA Trading.
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When added to Porsche's 42.6% direct stake, and the state of Lower Saxony's 20.0% holding, investors who were shorting Volkswagen suddenly realized that there was only 5.0% of equity left with which to close their positions, or reverse their bets that Volkswagen's shares would fall.
Such activity can be a headwind for equities, as sellers of portfolio insurance hedge by shorting futures.
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Investor who minted billions shorting subprime credit in 2007 lost some of his luster last year: flagship fund down 27.8%.
This ETF generates market-like returns by shorting the three lowest-yielding currencies of major industrialized countries and investing the proceeds in the three highest-yielding.
Many hedge fund managers deny naked shorting occurs, but a growing number of company executives, from bigger and bigger companies no less, have complained that short-sellers have used manipulation to drive their shares down.
You get the effect of a short put position without shorting anything.
This practice led to "failures to deliver, " or stocks not being produced after the shorting transaction was completed, for long periods of time.
Yet his actionable idea, shorting Chipotle, came only in the last minutes of his presentation.
The rock is the BoJ and the threat of further intervention which could crush those shorting this pair.
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