Although we find that property--casualty insurers in the Gulf Coast region have the largest stock price decreases, we do not find evidence of a significant difference in
short-selling activity for the Gulf Coast region, property--casualty stocks and other insurance stocks in the prelandfall period for Rita.
Some people view
short-selling as un-American because they say you're selling short Corporate America.
The required technology structure to implement
short-selling mechanism between the Misr for Central Clearing, Depository, and Registry (MCDR), the Egyptian Exchange (EGX), and brokerage companies will be finalised soon.
The limit acts as a safeguard for the orderly conduct of
short-selling activities, while still providing ample room for price discovery, the PSE said.
Pong Teng Siew, head of research at Inter Pacific Securities Sdn Bhd, said the reintroduction of
short-selling was positive.
Rashed Al Blooshi, Chief Executive of ADX stated "We are delighted to have granted Al Ramz Capital the License for Technical
Short-Selling, a service which comes within the framework of our strategic goals, which are increasing market cap and product range and attracting and activating a wider range of investors via diversifying investment instruments in order to increase the level of liquidity to match global markets.
Ehab Rashad, CEO of Al Safwa Mubasher Financial Services, the brokerage firm who will be the first to provide the technical short selling services to their customers, said "we are always keen to provide the latest cutting edge financial services to benefit our customers, of which the technical
short-selling opportunity is the latest."
Strictly speaking,
short-selling research organisations are adding an 'aphrodisiac' to market intelligence that confuses small and medium-size investors.
Hedge funds have embarked on the fourth major
short-selling cycle in crude oil futures and options since the start of 2015.
Prior work generally finds that
short-selling activity contains information about future price movements as current
short-selling activity relates inversely to subsequent stock returns (Diamond and Verrecchia, 1987; Senchack and Starks, 1993; Aitken et al., 1998; Desai et al., 2002; Boehmer, Jones, and Zhang, 2008; Diether, Lee, and Werner, 2009).
The Financial Conduct Authority has temporarily banned the
short-selling of three Portuguese stocks after the (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/486084/20130703/portugal-sovereign-debt-crisis-bailout-coehlo.htm) political turmoil caused a rift in the equity markets .