Investors have a chance to gain from dropping stock prices by short selling, a fascinating but difficult financial tactic. Short selling capitalizes on selling borrowed stocks at current high prices ...

Market participants predict less enforcement of fraud, possible changes to the SEC whistleblower program, and avoidance of ...

Hedge funds bet against all sectors, but industrials, consumer discretionary, energy and communications equities bore the ...

When investors are optimistic, they may be willing to pay a premium price for a stock in the hopes that the company's future ...

Short selling, short-trade research and public activism are all key to the functioning of the stock market. And yet it’s fiendishly hard to combine the three strands into a business that endures.

Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...