Oct 9th, 2008 · The ban imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission on short-sellers expired Wednesday night. With the market down 1,500 points over the week, has the ban had any effect and did it make any sense?
Sep 19th, 2008 · The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a temporary ban on short selling 799 financial industry stocks. Investors short a stock when they think it's more likely to go down than up. The move is a bid to calm jittery financial markets.
Sep 19th, 2008 · The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced a temporary ban on certain types of short-selling or betting that a stock's price will fall. Wall Streeter Barry Ritholtz argues that the SEC action reverses 1,000 years of theory about how free markets should work.
Sep 19th, 2008 · The Securities and Exchange Commission temporarily banned on Friday the routine practice of short-selling. That's when investors bet the price of a stock will fall. It's legal except when it's combined with spreading of false information. The ban on short-selling applies only to financial stocks.
Sep 19th, 2008 · The Securities and Exchange Commission took the dramatic step early Friday of temporarily banning the routine practice of betting against company stocks. The day before, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into short-selling practices on Wall Street. The ban only applies to financial stocks which have been hit hard this week.
Jul 25th, 2008 · Ever since the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to ban temporarily a practice called naked short-selling last week, the stock market has been rising. Some observers say it underscores how big a menace naked short-selling has become.
Jul 18th, 2008 · A more sinister cousin to short selling stocks is naked short selling.
Jan 8th, 2008 · Contact Harvest, an adaptation of the Halo video game, is on best-seller lists. Author Joseph Staten had never written a novel but has been writing for years for the video game. His book's popularity shows Halo's influence is reaching beyond the gaming community.