naked short selling

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox, says naked short selling is not out of control.

Japan moved up its restrictions on so-called naked short-selling by a week.

Co-ordination is now lacking: Germany is banning naked short selling unilaterally and the US is pursuing its own financial sector reform.

There has been a remarkably negative reaction to Germany's ban on naked short selling.

The so-called "naked short selling" is not yet determined whether the borrowed stock in the case of the short selling of stocks.

Indeed, the commission's chairman has said that "unbridled" naked short-selling of financial stocks has "not occurred" .

Some economists blame speculative transactions such as "naked short selling" for plunging the world economy into a financial crisis.

The unilateral ban on naked short selling was described by one British official as "crackers" .

In Germany and France, where so-called naked short selling was banned on all stocks, shares have also slumped.

Such thinking has informed Germany's decision to ban "naked" short-selling of government bonds.

The agency gave an emergency order to restrict what is known as "naked" short selling of those stocks.

Naked short selling is where an investors sells shares that they are yet to borrow as opposed to already borrowing.

U. S. stocks tumbled yesterday after Germany's announced its ban on naked short-selling.

With naked short selling, however, trading takes place with shares that have not yet been borrowed -- and may never be.

Germany's plan to extend a ban on naked short-selling of shares fuelled anxiety.

Last year Germany introduced a limited yet controversial ban on naked short-selling.

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