Petition Ban shorting shares through the use of spread bets

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It's the only solution to greed based speculation. Investing should be about fundamentals not dodging greedy brokers who don't care what damage they do as long as they get rich from it. Speculation through shorting destabilises the markets and global economy

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Date closed 15 August 2012
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