Short sellers are hoping to come out as the real winners of the US presidential election by positioning themselves to profit from the grand promises made by candidates to raise the federal minimum wage, according to a Markit report...
Energy producers and their service providers, along with representatives of the fast food sector, took the brunt of short sales last week, according to the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list...
Established watchmakers are failing to re-define their brands in world dominated by smartphones, while emerging wearable technology products are still struggling to win over sceptical consumers, according to Markit’s latest research...
Options Clearing Corporation has staunchly defended its financial safeguards following Standard & Poor’s decision to put the central counterparty’s credit rating on CreditWatch with a negative designation...
More US securities litigation cases may now be seen heard in state courts rather than at the federal level, following the unanimous ruling by the US Supreme Court on a case of alleged naked short selling...
The UK’s hard-pressed hospitality sector has caught the eye of short sellers as the looming EU Referendum and legislative pressures have thrown the future of the sector into uncertainty, according to Markit...
Clearstream’s global securities financing business endured its fourth consecutive month of volume dips, with a 16 percent drop-off in both year-to-year for April and monthly average volume figures for 2016 so far...
Shareholder documentation on the merger of the LSEG and Deutsche Börse is on track to be published in June, according to an update from the two institutions...