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Another Day, Another Departing Director The bottom line is that directors, including Byrne's own father -- the first one to hit the exits -- don't see any reason to stick around at Overstock. Why would investors?   |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
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A Stealth Lehman Bailout? Was the Fed's reported intervention a taste of things to come? |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Where Are My Naked Shorts? If this whole naked shorting thing is as easy to do as everyone claims, why not take down something big and healthy like Lowe's? |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
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How Short-Selling Can Save Your Portfolio This series looks at the details of how to bet against the market. Is short-selling for you? |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2008
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5 Reasons the SEC Wants to Quash Short Sellers The SEC says it will limit shorting of liquidity-dependent financials for at least 30 days. A slightly tongue-in-cheek look at five reasons why they are doing so now. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
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The Truth About Naked Shorts There's been a lot of information and misinformation about short selling recently. Read on to bring yourself up to speed and bust some myths along the way. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Manipulation and the Individual Investor Manipulation is undeniably real, but if investors can catch on to the more common tricks, they can avoid the traps. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2008
Rich Duprey |
The Short-Sale Ban Is a Fiction The SEC's ban fails to address the real causes of the financial markets' decline. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Sham Gad |
Don't Let Short-Selling Tempt You Frustrated by losses and a market that seems to show no immediate hope for quick gains, many investors may be tempted to try profiting from market declines by short-selling. Don't be one of them. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2008
Morgan Housel |
You're a Sneaky One, Lehman Brothers On the same day when market rumors surfaced that it would raise more capital, Lehman did practically the exact opposite: It bought back its own shares. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2006
Richard Gibbons |
A Peculiar Investment Strategy Do the world's most-hated stocks hold the key to investing success? |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2006
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Pegasus Squeezes the Shorts Although the stock of this wireless company is overvalued and overhyped based on the fundamental value of the business, investors might not want to have a short position at this point. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Don't Be Scared Out of Your Shorts About Shorting Shorting stocks can be intimidating for beginning investors. But this simple strategy could help it find a place in your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Eyes on the Wise This week's mini-maxi edition of Eyes on the Wise features yet more naked short intrigue, more politics as usual on Capitol Hill, and a couple of silly stock analyst tricks. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2005
Karl Thiel |
Who's Behind Naked Shorting? In search of culprits in the practice of illegal short selling of stocks. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2005
Karl Thiel |
The Naked Truth on Illegal Shorting Is the illegal practice of naked short selling destroying your investment? |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Death of Wall Street Wall Street as it's been known for decades got a dramatic makeover this weekend as the remaining independent investment banks -- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- gained approval from the Federal Reserve to be recognized as bank holding companies. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2010
Rich Smith |
Are Bankers Conspiring to Raise Your Taxes? Bankers and hedge funds are selling America's cities short. What does this mean for your tax burden? |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
Is Goldman Sachs Next in Line for Losses? It looked like it had avoided major impact from the credit crisis. That may change soon. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2008
Paul Shread |
Bailout Bill Passes -- Now The Hard Part Begins Will the government's massive financial rescue plan work? The answer for technology companies and their investors won't be academic. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Don't Let Bear Stearns' Price Fool You Since news of Bear Stearns' deal with JPMorgan shares have been trading higher than the proposed $2 price. Why? |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2007
Michael Goode |
Dueling Fools: Overstock.com Bear The bears feel that Overstock.com is a second-rate business in an industry where only a few big companies can survive. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2006 |
Shorting Stocks You might not know it, but if you've spied a stock you're pretty sure will tank, there's an interesting way you might profit from its fall. You'd reverse the old saying -- by selling high and then buying low. This is shorting a stock. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2008
Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: It's the Uptick Rule, Stupid An SEC decision in July 2007 could well be contributing to the current financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Ken Lay's Startling Youa-Culpa The former Enron CEO blames the media and short sellers for Enron's demise. How convenient. Don't let this dribble provide an excuse for ordinary investors to toss away due diligence in favor of conspiracy theories. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Overstock's Short Fuse CEO Patrick Byrne's job is to run the business toward profitability, not worry about the big baddies out there conspiring to take him down. If Byrne and Overstock can deliver top- and bottom-line results, this short problem will take care of itself. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010 |
Roundtable: Is Short-Selling Evil? As part of our special series on short-selling, we asked several Motley Fool analysts to weigh in with their views on whether being able to sell short is a good or bad thing for financial markets in general. Here's what they had to say. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Pegasus Clips Its Own Wings CEO Knabb takes Pegasus Wireless off the Nasdaq in order to help shareholders -- they're down 25% so far today. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2004
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The Short Story Should you try to profit when stocks fall? |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
The Crackdown On Stock-Loan Schemes A criminal probe by a U.S. Attorney may reveal some of the mysteries of short sellers. |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Naked Shorting in Berlin Hundreds of companies are finding themselves set up to be the victims of a naked shorting scam on a small and, until recently, unheard-of German bourse, the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Short-Selling Can Leave You Short As part of our series on short-selling, this Motley Fool writer says defend the practice, but proceed with extreme caution. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Now It's Time for Short-Sellers to Panic Right now, with the market already having declined so much, short-sellers could find themselves even worse off than investors who've owned shares throughout the bear market. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008 |
The Pro Guide to Shorting There's more risk than potential gain, so tread carefully. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2008
Tim Beyers |
First, Let's Kill All the Short-Sellers New rules seem destined to stick it to the shorts. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2007
Michael Goode |
Don't Sell a Short-Seller Short Trying to beat short-sellers can squeeze your wallet instead. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Bears Are Back and They're Buying This Take a look at the Active Bear ETF, and you'll find just about everything you'd expect from an exchange-traded fund. But instead of owning holdings, this fund takes short positions. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2005
Bill Mann |
I Am NEVER Missing the Overstock Call Never dull, the Overstock.com conference call gave reason for conspiracy theorists everywhere to salivate. You know what? There's something to this thing. |
BusinessWeek
July 23, 2007
Steve Rosenbush |
Guess Who's Coming Up Short Private equity deals and stiff competition spell tough times for short-sellers. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
SEC charges 38 in Multi-Million Dollar Stock Loan Kick-Back Schemes Stock loan traders worked with phony stock loan "finders" to skim profits in the form of finder fees, and then took cash kick backs from these finders. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Taking Stock of Overstock The newswires have been rather quiet about the e-tailer, despite the fact that people tend to buzz about the stock. Here's a little inventory of the past few months' worth of news. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2010
Tim Hanson |
Don't Short This Stock Hypergrowth stocks -- and MercadoLibre occupies that category, whether it achieves its valuation or not -- are notoriously difficult to predict. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Take That, Lehman Short-Sellers! Embattled investment bank Lehman Brothers is battling tooth and nail to avoid going down the same path as Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2010
Morgan Housel |
The Benefits of Short-Selling Are Way Overrated Save the praise. Short-sellers rarely uncover much. |
