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Listed below are comments made by bucketshopboy between Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 and Thursday, 16th October 2008.

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Banks still not lending 07:55am on 16 Oct 2008 Lehman CDS settlement on 21/10/08 surely has something to do with it?
Short-selling banks 1:25pm on 03 Jun 2008 The reason portfolio managers continue to lend stock is that the income from stock lending is significant and they want to make as much money for their clients as possible!

There's nothing wrong with short-selling, of course, but one of the real problems at the moment seems to be naked short-selling - i.e. selling stock without having first borrowed it. It is suspected that many hedge funds engage in this practice, selling unborrowed stock and then simply failing to deliver it. This adds to the supply of stock and of course drives the prices down.

Lots of details on this at http://www.deepcapture.com/

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