May 5, 2009
Ms. Schapiro,
Below is taken from your April speech. Please note the highlighted part.
SOURCE: http://www.sec.gov/news/speech/2009/spch040809mls.htm
"The Commission has long held the view that short selling provides the market with important benefits, including market liquidity and pricing efficiency. But, short selling may also be used to illegally manipulate stock prices. One example is the "bear raid" where an equity security is sold short in an effort to drive down the price of the security by creating an imbalance of sell-side interest. In addition, unrestricted short selling can exacerbate a declining market in a security by increasing pressure from the sell-side, eliminating bids, and causing a further reduction in the price of a security by creating an appearance that the security price is falling for fundamental reasons, when the decline, or the speed of the decline, is in fact being driven by other factors."
Can you point me towards just one(1) SEC litigation release that shows any action taken by SEC Enforcement Division against the illegal manipulation of short selling???
Thank You
G8