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To: rrufff who wrote (4617)	9/15/2009 8:27:23 AM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5034

Lehman Legacy Alters Global Markets by Tom Lauricella Monday, September 14, 2009 Short-Sellers Took Flak as Stocks Fell, But Did Ban Help? In the depths of the financial crisis a year ago, short sellers were blamed for driving some of the world's biggest financial institutions to the brink of ruin. Regulators around the globe responded with emergency bans on selling those stocks short. Those bans have nearly all disappeared. It isn't much harder now to bet against companies than it was before the crisis. The prohibitions didn't stop stocks from tumbling and some say hampered trading.<snip> finance.yahoo.com