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A Stealth Lehman Bailout? Was the Fed's reported intervention a taste of things to come?   |
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Sell Short to Save the Market! With the short-selling ban expired, market volatility may be lessened. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2008
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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
September 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Watch Out for Broken ETFs Government action sometimes has unintended consequences. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008 |
The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2008
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A Whale of a Short-Selling Tale Protection from shorts goes far beyond the original intention. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2008
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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
March 30, 2010
Morgan Housel |
For Banks, It's Been 800 Days of Christmas A short list of little-known goodies. |
CFO
January 1, 2009
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The Year That Was A look back at the lows and ultra-lows of an all-too-historic year. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2008
John Reeves |
Fool Blog: Short Selling and the Death of Satire Do the big investment banks really need our protection? |
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 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
March 17, 2009
Bleeker & Williamson |
Who's More to Blame: The SEC or Fannie and Freddie? March Madness series: Which government-ish entity do you choose? The SEC has more than enough complicity in this mess, but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were set up to fail from the start. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Fool Poll: More Bad News for Lehman We asked who'd be the next Bear Stearns. You responded. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2004
Bill Mann |
Three Financials Behaving Badly With each of these three massive financial institutions, representing the largest banking, mortgage, and insurance participants respectively, the taint of ongoing fraud ought to make minority shareholders awfully nervous. |
The Motley Fool
June 6, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Lehman Crash and Burn? Short sellers are circling Lehman Brothers -- will it be the next Bear Stearns? |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Stress Test: Who Are the Shorts Targeting? Aggregate short sales in the shares of the 18 publicly traded financials subject to the government's stress tests were twice as high on April 15 as they were at their peak last year in July, two months before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2008
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Ban Lifted but Questions Linger Short selling was banned for just a few days, but advisors wonder if it will happen again. |
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
August 31, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Best Investor Around: the U.S. Government? The government is reaping profits on its banking investments. But hold the confetti. |
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
October 7, 2008
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The SEC Has Let Us Down Who's the SEC looking out for again? It's not you or I. |
Investment Advisor
September 2008
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Turf Wars A conversation with former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos about the Treasury's Blueprint for financial services reform. |
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
September 4, 2009
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Fannie and Freddie: 1 Year Later A look at the first shots fired in the financial meltdown, and where we go from here. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2010
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Banning Short Selling Is an Act of Desperation Legitimate short selling is a viable market strategy that aids the price-discovery mechanism. Germany's ban on short selling fixes nothing. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2008
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Investors Cheer Financial Rescue Plan Investors responded enthusiastically Friday to the federal government's massive financial rescue plan, but the long-term process of sorting winners and losers is just beginning. |
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
September 29, 2008
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Go Ahead, Punk, Short Our Stock A few companies are actually opting out of the SEC's short sale ban. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Killing It Softly Under departing Chairman William Donaldson, one of the SEC's most decisive actions received little attention; it recently eliminated a class of investments: stable value mutual funds. |
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
August 11, 2008
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The Fannie Mae DMZ Fannie Mae and her little brother, Freddie Mac, are minefields right now -- you'd be better off avoiding the stocks altogether. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
The Financial System Is Cracking Banking news: Things got worse in the credit crisis this week as the market speculated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need a government bailout. |
The Motley Fool
April 22, 2009
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Was That the Market Bottom? The market was up, way up, in March. But take a look at sector performance for the bigger picture. |
InternetNews
November 1, 2007
Christopher Saunders |
Internet Tax Ban Gets Extended President Bush signed into law a temporary ban on Internet taxes that had been set to expire today. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2011
Alexander Crawford |
Short-Selling Trends: S&P 500 Stocks Being Targeted by Short-Sellers For an idea of which stocks are being targeted by short-sellers, here is a list of the most highly shorted S&P 500 companies. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Read This Before You Bet Against the Rally Not everyone's happy about just how far the stock market has gone up in the past year. If you've been betting against the market and particular stocks, this rally is driving you crazy -- and there seems to be no relief in sight. |
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
March 2, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Don't Mess With This Bull, You'll Get the Horns! The bull market is causing short-sellers to give up and run for the hills. Is this good news? Apparently, short-sellers have gotten sick and tired of finding themselves on the wrong side of the bull horns as the S&P 500 has marched up nearly 100% since the lows of 2009. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2010
Morgan Housel |
The Benefits of Short-Selling Are Way Overrated Save the praise. Short-sellers rarely uncover much. |
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. |
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. |
