Thursday, March 19, 2009

Short Selling Ban for Financials in the U.S. was a Failure

In Fall of 2008, the SEC banned short selling for two weeks for about 800 financial stocks. Although there was a temporary "relief" in prices, financial stocks headed lower -- much lower -- in the weeks and months after the ban.

Did the short selling ban work?

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/09/23/the-short-sale-ban-is-a-fiction.aspx

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