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 risk of short selling is that the stock price goes up and you must cover the position at a higher price (taking a loss). Julie Hawk earned her honors undergraduate degree from the University ...

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

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 ...