US regulators are out to find the market movers and shakers
When the stock market was riding high on the crest of a wave and finance was available for each and every company in the US there were no witch hunts by the US regulators. However, now that times have changed and investors are being stung on a regular basis by short sellers it seems that the government has now embarked upon a witch hunt with financial regulators. So why now?
Like the government in the UK there appears to be a need to blame someone and the shorters seem to be very much top of the list. They can be pests, they can move markets and they can crack sentiment but if the groups they attack were strong enough they would survive. However, there are some shorters who like to spread misinformation which can cause havoc and is illegal - these are the real culprits.
As we mentioned in an earlier article, short selling is very much part of the investment market and any attempt to cut this from the arsenal of investors will not help in the long run. Markets will and do naturally find their own levels and while we are currently in a very difficult situation, is the answer really to blame everything on the short sellers?
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