Important:
This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Petition Ban Short Selling of Shares
More details
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.
This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months
115 signatures
Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency
10,000 signatures required to get a government response