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Closed petition Ban Short Selling of Shares
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In short-selling, traders profit from bets on the fall in a share price.
The practice has been blamed for increasing recent market instability, as well as for past events.
Short-sellers usually borrow shares or bonds, sell them, then buy them back when the stock falls - pocketing the difference.
This has an artificial and negative impact on share prices and should be outlawed.
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