For some investors, it's about selling high and buying low—a strategy known as short selling, shorting, selling short, or going short. The sometimes controversial practice allows traders to ...

Day traders who speculate on an upcoming decline often sell stocks short. But you can also use short sales to balance portfolio allocations and manage risk. That's one reason why you need the best ...

Short selling in the stock market is perfectly legal if an investor has borrowed stocks first. Without borrowing stocks, investors who short them are engaged in an illegal practice of naked short ...

South Korea’s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, who’s among the leading contenders to replace the sitting South Korean ...

South Korea's financial watchdog vowed Tuesday to continue implementing a series of market-boosting measures, including its ...

Investor confidence in certain major companies has propelled markets higher, but there are also those betting against big-name stocks through short selling amid continued uncertainty. The S&P 500 ...

He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance. Short selling is a way for investors to bet against the price of a stock. In other words, if you simply buy shares of a stock, you're generally ...

Turkey removed a ban on short-selling top stocks, a long-awaited move that eases investor concerns over market accessibility.

The lithium producer is no longer Australia’s most shorted stock after its exclusion from a widely tracked index, prompting ...

The U.K. government is moving ahead with plans to reform short-selling rules that will see the removal of a requirement for hedge funds and other investors to disclose their short positions publicly.

helped facilitate an “abusive” short-selling scheme involving Canopy Growth Corp., calling the securities watchdog’s allegations “an overreach.” The Ontario Securities Commission’s ...