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: Securities Law Prof BlogSEC's Inspector General Recommends Improved Procedures for Handling Complaints about Naked Short Selling
By Securites Lawprof
Full post as published by Securities Law Prof Blog on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).
More on the Problems Caused by Naked Short Selling
More on the Problems Caused by Naked Short Selling Just a few days after I weighed in on the problems caused by naked short selling, the SEC's Inspector General issued a report noting that the SEC received 5,000 complaints over...
How short selling works
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The SEC's ban on short selling was supported by a similar measure enacted by the FSA in Great Britain. Other countries have followed suit, although not always in the same heavy handed way...
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The SEC voted unanimously yesterday to propose a new rule intended to enhance the SEC's ability to crack down on naked short sales and failures to deliver shares that are used in such sales, Reuters reported...
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Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) has been on a crusade against naked short selling for a couple of years (or more?). It is currently his position that naked short selling is bad...
SEC Issues New Rules to Protect Investors Against Naked Short Selling Abuses
News release: "The Securities and Exchange Commission today took several coordinated actions to strengthen investor protections against "naked" short selling....
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