short selling news from FierceFinanceIT

Several proposals to curb short-selling have been discussed over the past year. I think most people were betting that a modified uptick rule was going to be passed. The issue really was whether some... Read more...

There has been no shortage of changes to the short-selling rules over the past year or so. The financial crisis and the subsequent financial stock meltdown led to all sorts of temporary bans and... Read more...

From a systems point of view, there's a lot of uncertainty over the current rules regarding short selling. The bottom line is that rule tinkering often results in required system tweaks, which can be... Read more...

In most cases, significant regulatory market changes are ushered in over time, allowing Wall Street firms the necessary time to tweak their systems. But not the short selling ban, which doesn't... Read more...