![]() ![]() The American Bankers Association said that shares in banks that are perfectly sound are getting hammered in the market in a way that just looks weird. “What that would look like is someone using social media to cast doubt on the financial health of a public company and that person doesn’t disclose that they have already taken a short position in that stock.” At that time, the servers will go offline, and you will no longer be able to play the game. ![]() What the ABA is worried about is short selling that crosses the line into market manipulation, she said. World Battleships List: US Dreadnought Battleships Revised 6 October 2001 Version 2. We will continue to support Dreadnought until March 19, 2023, at 11 am CST. Visit to download your copy of Colonial Battlefleet and the new Colonial Shipyard. “In some cases, that can be really valuable information when a public company is in fact overvalued,” said Haima Marlier, a partner at the law firm Morrison Foerster. Thanks to everyone who has help us get to this point. And short sellers talk about their bets all the time: on social media, cable TV, in blog posts and articles that sometimes reach millions of people. Short selling on its own is perfectly legal - it’s just placing a bet that a stock price will go down. On Thursday, the ABA sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking the agency to look into the issue. The American Bankers Association is laying some of the blame for that at the feet of short sellers trying to scare people into thinking banks are about to go under so that the stock price falls and they can profit. ![]() We saw an example of that this week when banking stocks were tanking while smaller banks across the country were saying they were fine. Here at Marketplace, there’s a particular saying we like: The stock market is not the economy.
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