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- Financial stocks suffer after protection ends
- The SEC's emergency curb on short selling of 19 major financial services firms stocks expired before Wednesday trading, leaving investors to wonder if the measure helped protect the strained system. Since July 21, the SEC rule banned "naked" short sales on those 19 stocks. Short sellers...
- Research articles 2008-08-14
- Short-selling trader settles with SEC
- In recent years, it's become fashionable for CEOs to blame short-sellers for any dip in their companies' share prices. But once in a while, it's actually true. The Securities and Exchange Commission settled a case Thursday with a short-seller who e-mailed a negative rumor about a...
- Research articles 2008-04-25
- What determines the level of short-selling activity?
- I test several explanations for the short-sale trading for a sample of the NYSE and the Nasdaq stocks during the 1988-2002 period. I find that short-selling activity is positively related to arbitrage opportunities and hedging demand, and negatively related to previous short-term returns. ANOVA analysis shows that the stock option...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Medis Technologies - Chmn. & CEO Interview
- MARK HAINES, CNBC ANCHOR: In today`s high-tech wireless world, where cameras, video and audio can come from one device, users often find themselves looking for a plug to recharge. But a company by the name of Medis Technologies looking to change that. Company currently...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Short-sellers bet on U.S. carriers' woes.
- By Ilene Aleshire, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--Companies generally like it when their stock is the target of investors -- unless, of course, the investors are betting that the price will go down. That...
- Research articles 2004-12-08
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Heard off the Street column.
- By Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 19--THIS CASE MAY PROVE SEC'S CALL FOR PSYCHOLOGIST IS JUSTIFIED: The Securities and Exchange Commission, overworked and under fire, wants to hire a psychologist to counsel its embattled employees and keep...
- Research articles 2004-07-19
- Allied Capital Corp. says SEC is investigating it
- NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- Business lender Allied Capital Corp. Thursday said it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, apparently as a response to allegations by short sellers. Washington-based Allied Capital provides financing to mid-sized private companies. It had revenue of $3 billion last year,...
- Research articles 2004-06-25
- H-Quotient Announces Major Software Sale and Listing Change
- VIENNA, Va. -- H-Quotient, Inc., HQNT, and Healthnostics, Inc. HNST have entered into a letter of intent for the sale of its PhysicianQuotient and LabQuotient medical software products to Healthnostics, Inc., HNST for 8 million shares of a new series of convertible preferred stock with a conversion ratio into common...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- Lifeline Biotechnologies States There is No Business or Economic Reason for Recent Share Value Decline
- Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers RENO, Nev.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 10, 2004 Jim Holmes, CEO of Lifeline Biotechnologies, Inc., (OTC:LBTT) responding to inquiries by shareholders, advised today that management of the Company knows of no valid business or economic reason for the recent decline in the per share price of the Company's...
- Research articles 2004-05-10
- FTC warns TSE over 'coercive' stock fee policy, daily says.
- TOKYO, May 21 Kyodo The Fair Trade Commission FTC has warned the Tokyo Stock Exchange TSE over its allegedly forcing brokerage houses to levy certain levels of fees on short-sellers, a practice the FTC views as incompatible with the free market, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun...
- Research articles 2003-05-27
- Don't shoot the messenger; Short-selling.(Why short-selling should be encouraged)
- Although it is under fire, short-selling should be encouraged WHEN markets fall, short-sellers--who try to make money by selling shares they do not own, in the hope of buying them back at a lower price--become everybody's favourite whipping-boys. They are accused of aggravating pain...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Life Partners Holdings, Inc. SqueezeTrigger Price is $34.36. Approximately 1.5 Million Shares Shorted Since October 2005 According to Buyins.net Research Report
- WACO, Texas -- Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ GM: LPHI) announced today that BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, is initiating coverage of Life Partners Holdings, Inc. after releasing the latest short sale data to September 2007. From October 2005 to September 2007 approximately 27.5 million total aggregate shares of LPHI have traded for...
- Research articles 2007-09-13
- Oklahoma's Attorney General Seeks Inquiry of Short Selling.
- By Don Mecoy, The Daily Oklahoman Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 12--Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc. has enlisted Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson in its long battle against stock traders who profit when the Ada company's share price falls, a practice Edmondson...
- Research articles 2003-01-12
- Short sellers unfairly criticised.
- Byline: Niki Natarajan Short sellers have long been the equity market's cartoon villains, blamed for heartlessly profiting from - and compounding - every market crisis. So during the market turmoil that followed last year's terrorist attacks in the US, the evil shorts would have...
- Research articles 2002-05-14
- Oklahoma-Based Pre-Paid Legal Services Goes through Rough Times.
- By Melissa Davis, The Daily Oklahoman Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 29--Frank Jaques has a filing cabinet full of documents that trace back to Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc.'s earliest days. He remembers when the company was first Sportsmen's Motor Club,...
- Research articles 2001-04-29
- Turbodyne Sues Asensio & Company for Fraud & Defamation
- WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 16, 1998--Turbodyne Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:TRBD)(Easdaq:TRBD) Wednesday announced that it has filed a six-count complaint against New York "short seller" Manuel P. Asensio and his Asensio & Company Inc. ("Asensio") in Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles. Turbodyne's lawsuit charges Asensio with...
- Research articles 1998-12-16
- AimRite Holdings Receives Capital for Production
- SAN DIEGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 17, 1998--AimRite Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq/BB:AIMH) is pleased to announce that it has received initial funds that enable it to move toward production. The larger remaining capital commitments have been reconfirmed to be in place between 45 and 60 days. According to...
- Research articles 1998-09-17
- Shopping.Com Shares Re-Enter "Shorting" Maelstrom
- The shares of online retailer Shooping.com resumed trading yesterday following their 10-day suspension by the Securities & Exchange Commission SEC. The SEC suspended the Corona Del Mar, California company's shares because of a lack of accurate information about the securities of the company, but more importantly because the activity up...
- Research articles 1998-04-08
- RESEARCH ALERT — Casmyn Corp. Profiled by RedHotStocks
- LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 13, 1997--RedHotStocks said on Monday it was issuing a Special Situation Newsletter on Casmyn Corp. CMYN with a rating of Strong Buy. Casmyn is a Nevada-based gold mining and exploration concern. According to RedHotStocks, Casmyn stock is near its all-time low...
- Research articles 1997-10-13
- New York Grand Jury to probe short selling in Solv-Ex common stock
- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 31, 1997--Solv-Ex Corp. (NASDAQ:SOLV) reports it has been informed by the U.S. Attorney's Office that a Federal Grand Jury empaneled for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is investigating short selling by third parties in Solv-Ex common stock. ...
- Research articles 1997-01-31
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