Short selling, or shorting, a stock or another type of security is straightforward in theory, but it presents different costs and risks from going long. Plus, shorting is sometimes seen as a ...

Short selling, a practice dating back to the 17th century, involves borrowing shares and then selling them immediately, wagering on a price drop. Put options, a more recent financial invention ...

In the United States, for example, you can only sell a stock short on an "uptick," meaning the last trade has to be higher than the one prior to it, if a stock has fallen 10% or more in a single day.

Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission said in a statement it would limit the number of shares that can be sold short and raise the minimum short-selling margin ratio to 130% from 90%, starting ...

South Korea's market watchdog has decided to impose fines on JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and UBS for violating short-selling rules in the domestic stock market, officials at the country's ...

Selling a stock short involves a process that can seem daunting to understand at first, but it’s really not. Essentially, investors borrow shares of a given company they want to bet against.

Taiwan's top financial regulator said on Sunday it will impose temporary curbs on short-selling of shares to help deal with potential market turmoil from U.S. President Donald Trump's new import ...