Leverage involves using borrowed capital or securities to fund a financial asset. Short selling and covering are strategies that incorporate leverage to maximize returns. Short covering means the ...

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 ...

Short selling offers investors a unique avenue to ... the stock price forces short sellers to buy back shares quickly to cover their positions, further driving up the price. Shorting stocks ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently adopted Rule 13f-2 and Form SHO under the Securities Exchange Act ...

But, he noted, “the risk of publicly putting out a sell rating is exponentially ... which forced short-sellers to cover their positions and lose lots of money.) The process of shorting is ...

Chris Hughes is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals ... short-seller Jim Chanos threw in the towel on activist short selling, the equally famous Hindenburg Research is calling it a ...