Download or read book The Informational Role of Short Sellers The Evidence from Short Sellers Reports on U S Listed Chinese Firms written by Lei Chen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using U.S.-listed Chinese firms as the setting, this paper studies a novel channel through which investors can acquire information about firms' financial reporting quality, that is, the reports published voluntarily by short sellers. I find that short sellers tend to target firms that have financial reporting red flags and that exhibit “good” operating performance and stock valuations. Targeted firms experience an average three-day cumulative abnormal return (CAR) of -6.4%, and -13.6% for initial coverage of the firm, and the CARs are more negative when the reports allege more severe misconduct of the firms. Non-targeted firms also experience losses in value following short-seller reports, especially when they hire the same non-Big 4 auditors as targeted firms and when their earnings quality is poor. In comparison, analysts fail to perform proper due diligence and are much less effective than short sellers in exposing misreporting risk in Chinese firms.

Download or read book Short Selling Stabilizes the Market Evidence from China written by Muhammad Suhail Rizwan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short sellers are frequently held responsible for stimulating a strong bearish trend in the markets and enhancing panic in falling markets. Whereas, financial and economic theories advocate the stance that short sellers play an informational role in the market, make it efficient and correct the over or under reaction of the market. In order to check the volatility or stability caused by short selling, unique case of China's Shanghai Stock Exchange has been examined in this study. China's regulators allowed short selling for the first time in 2010. This historic reform provided us an interesting data set. By using asymmetric TGARCH model on daily return data of Shanghai Stock Exchange 50 index from January 5, 2007 to June 11, 2012, and by taking into account Day-of-the-Week effect, financial crisis, and regional as well as international spillovers, robust evidence in favor of short selling have been found by this study. Short selling reduces the volatility of the market and stabilizes it. Our findings have implications for China's regulators and investors, who can use the result of this study in policy making and portfolio development respectively.

Download or read book Sold Short written by Manuel P. Asensio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing expose by one of today's most successful andcontroversial speculators Short-selling, or betting on a drop in the price of a stock, hasbeen described by its many opponents as everything from shady todownright evil. And no one today personifies the practice betterthan short-seller extraordinaire Manuel Asensio. Though he has beenbranded in the press as a market saboteur, Asensio staunchlydefends his practices, claiming that, above all, he is out toexpose rampant fraud being perpetrated by unscrupulous stockpromoters. Is Asensio a "Minion of Satan" as they say in the onlinechat rooms, or is he really a misunderstood guardian angel of freemarket capitalism? In this tell-all account, Asensio offers readersa lively narrative, peppered with unforgettable anecdotes such asthe story of why he shorted Diana, General Nutrition, Solv-Ex,Turbodyne, and many other high-profile stocks. And he armsinvestors with proven techniques for reducing the inherent risks ofshort-selling while maximizing returns. Clearly, Asensio invitesboth praise and criticism, but his methodology works, and SoldShort is a compelling and fascinating read about this oftenmysterious side of the market--and one of the most controversialindividuals behind it. Manuel Asensio (New York, NY) is founder and Chairman of Asensio& Co., Inc. He has over twenty years of corporate finance andresearch experience. He has been featured in Business Week, theWall Street Journal, Barron's, Fortune, Forbes, Worth, the New YorkTimes, New York magazine, and the New Republic, among other leadingnational and international publications.

Download or read book Impact of Short Selling on Volatility of Individual Stocks and Aggregate Market written by Muhammad Suhail Rizwan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explored the linkage between short selling and market stabilization. While financial and economic theory advocates the positive role played by short sellers for market stabilization, short sellers are frequently blamed for causing market decline and increasing the panic in falling markets. China's regulators allowed short selling in 2010 and this reform provided us an interesting data set to check whether short sellers destabilize the market or play a positive role. By using asymmetric TGARCH model on daily return data of Shanghai Stock Exchange 50 index from January 5, 2007 to June 11, 2012, and taking into account Day-of-the-Week effect, financial crisis and regional and international spillovers, we found robust evidence that short sale trading reduces the volatility and stabilizes the market. Our findings have implications for China's regulators in policy making as well investors in the Chinese stock market in portfolio development.

Download or read book The Informativeness of Short Sellers written by George Gao and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the vocal critics of short sellers are corporate insiders, who allege that short sellers beat down their stock prices. Many corporations even engage in stock repurchases to show confidence that the stock will perform well going forward despite the short sellers' actions. In this paper, we analyze insiders' trading actions in their personal portfolios. We document a strong inverse relation between short selling and subsequent insider trading, which is partially due to common private information and same target firm characteristics. Additionally, we find that insiders extract information from shorts. This information extraction effect is more pronounced for firms whose insiders have stronger incentives to extract shorts information (insider purchases, higher short-sale constraints, and better information environments). During the September 2008 shorting ban, the information extraction effect disappeared among the large banned firms, whose shorting activities were distorted. Our empirical evidence contradicts the oft-cited accusations corporate executives hold against short sellers.

Download or read book Do Short Sellers Know More Evidence from a Natural Experiment written by Zhaojin Xu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior research has generally found that stocks with a high level of short interest perform poorly suggesting that short sellers have superior information. However, it is known that stock prices can affect corporate performance due to resource allocation: that is, a low stock price can negatively affect firm performance by denying the company capital or other resources needed for efficient operation (Subrahmanyam and Titman, 2001). Thus, it is not clear whether the excess returns to short sellers are a result of superior information or resource constraints imposed by a depressed stock price.We examine the informativeness of short sales following introduction of Rule 10b-21 that limited the ability of market participants to short sell prior to an SEO. Using recent research, we are able to categorize SEO-issuing firms into short sale constrained and short sale unconstrained stocks. We find that the underpricing of SEOs by firms that are short sale constrained increases after the rule. We believe that the higher cost of short selling reduces the level of short selling that makes the prices less informative and increases underpricing. On the other hand, there is no change in the level of underpricing for SEOs by firms where short sales are unconstrained. The underpricing does not decline which is consistent with absence of manipulative short selling. Thus, our evidence is consistent with the notion that short sellers possess superior information. Finally, we find that the post-issue underperformance occurs only for SEOs where short sales are constrained.

Download or read book Informed Short Sellers and Stock Price Reactions to Earnings Announcements written by Guojun Wang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the special event of short selling ban removal in the Chinese stock market in March 2010, I study the relationship between short selling activities and future stock returns and the effect of short sale constraints on stock price reactions to earnings announcements. I find strong evidence supporting the Diamond and Verrecchia (1987) hypothesis that an unexpected increase in short interest predicts negative future stock returns. The long-short portfolio that buys stocks with a decline or no change in short interest and shorts stocks with an increase in short interest is able to generate a significant positive return in the following week. The positive return is strongest during the first two days, is most significant in three industries: properties, conglomerates, and industrials, is highest for big firms, growth stocks, and stocks with high short interest. Moreover, I also confirm the Diamond and Verrecchia (1987) prediction that reducing short sale constraints leads to smaller price adjustments on the private information announcement day as the stock price reaction to earnings surprises on earnings announcement day is found to be 70% lower after the short sale ban is removed. However, I don't find evidence supporting their prediction that the reduction in price reaction is larger when negative news is released due to data limitations.

Download or read book Short selling Activity in the Stock Market written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Short Sales and Manipulation of Securities written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Do Short Sellers Target Firms with Poor Earnings Quality Evidence from Earnings Restatements written by Hemang Desai and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the behavior of short sellers around earnings restatements. We find that short sellers accumulate positions in restating firms several months in advance of the restatement and subsequently unwind these positions after the drop in share price induced by the restatement. The increase in short interest is larger for firms with high levels of accruals prior to restatement, and the association between short interest and accruals is robust to controlling for other factors that affect the shorting decision. We document that heavily shorted firms experience poor subsequent performance and a higher rate of delisting. Overall, these results suggest that the motive for short selling is, at least in part, related to suspect financial reporting and that short sellers pay attention to the same type of information that is being conveyed by accruals.

Download or read book Hedge Fund Activism written by Alon Brav and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedge Fund Activism begins with a brief outline of the research literature and describes datasets on hedge fund activism.

Download or read book Don t Blame the Shorts Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself written by Robert Sloan and published by Mcgraw-hill. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listed in Bloomberg’s TOP 50 BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2010 and shortlisted for Spear’s FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE YEAR AWARD “Robert Sloan works in the hedge-fund industry. As he shows in this readable polemic, dislike of shorting has a long history. . . . Someone has to point out when the emperor has no clothes. The shorts were among the biggest skeptics of the subprime-mortgage boom and of the banks that financed it. And when they were proved right, their activities were banned. Gratitude, huh?” The Economist “If Robert Sloan manages to go the distance in Don’t Blame the Shorts, it is because his book is as much about historical tensions between Washington and Wall Street as the practice of short selling. He puts it all in the context of the opposing views of the federalist Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-speculation, and Jeffersonian republicans, who were pro-agriculture and convinced that making money from money was nonsense. . . . His book is a useful corrective to the view of short selling as ‘unpatriotic’ or uniquely antisocial . . . it is a brave act to take on anti-finance populists at this time.” Financial Times “In this knowing book about the business of short-selling stocks, financier Robert Sloan gives a modern day lesson on why we shouldn’t shoot the messenger. . . Rather than blast short sellers, we should praise them for exposing management methane. . . .The story may be old, but Sloan’s easy and informative writing makes for a thoroughly worthwhile update.” Barron’s ”Bob Sloan, a Wall Street veteran, cites the confrontation in his new book, Don’t Blame the Shorts, as evidence that blind fury from politicians and unrepentant shrugs from bankers are far from new. As the title suggests, Sloan’s main thrust is to defend the practice of short-selling. . . . Today, Sloan says, the very same battle of ideas is being played out in America . . . this is just the latest bitter expression of the constant tension between a moneyed east coast financial elite, and the manufacturers, mom-and-pop shops and the scrappy entrepreneurs who bitterly resent the power of Wall Street—but don’t want the cash taps to be turned off.” The Observer “Timely, concise, accessible to the lay reader and with a decorously polemical edge, it is both revealing and entertaining. No matter what the politicians do, the markets will find a way to challenge the finaglers and the optimists who sustain them. Like the poor, the shorts will always be with us.” Spear’s “Post-crisis reading . . . best books on the financial crisis and its aftermath. . . . While other authors point accusing fingers, in his book, Don’t Blame the Shorts, Robert Sloan leaps to the defense of short sellers who, as he describes, have been long scapegoated for market crashes and are once again in the wake of the recent crisis. The Dutch East India Company was blaming its troubles on them as far back as 1609.” Economist.com “This book is a rare treat. Unlike most books about Wall Street, it is written from a perspective sympathetic to the banking and securities industries. Better still, Bob Sloan is not only a practitioner and market participant himself, but one with a fine sense of history. Sloan rightly describes prime brokerage as ‘the largest, most unnoticed banking system in the word.’” Global Custodian “Short and to the point and very well researched. As we are living in an era of history repeating itself, Mr. Sloan depicts the negative market psychology that has transcended Wall Street since the birth of our nation.” Instablog “Sloan’s recent book…provides an excellent survey of the shorting debate. Sloan recounts how a succession of U.S. government agencies have enacted rules over the decades to restrain short sellers—usually in the aftermath of financial crises such as the one we have just endured. Sloan believes those rules have always had counterproductive results. Sloan’s book is a smooth read, mainly because he has done his homework and has lots of entertaining scoundrels and inept politicians to write about… Sloan’s work provides a real service to market regulators and practitioners alike. With a deft quill, he exposes the futility of government regulation while offering a useful back story to the views of contemporary market regulators.” ABA Banking Journal About the Book: On the 80th anniversary of the Crash of 1929, we find ourselves peering backwards through a virtual looking-glass to a time when global markets were in free fall, and venerable financial institutions were in tatters. Yet, here in the present, these same patterns seem to repeat, causing cable newsers, Congressmen, and commoners alike to scream the same refrain, "Blame the short sellers!" Certainly, short sellers make convenient villains; for one thing, they win only when others lose. But in Don't Blame the Shorts, Bob Sloan taps into a 200-year-old American debate to convincingly and emphatically argue that short selling is not what ails our equities trading markets, but what keeps them honest. To Sloan, short sellers’ objectives are simple: find overvalued securities and bet against overconfident investors. It's an approach that uncovered widespread fraud at Enron, WorldCom, HealthSouth, and other failed outfits long before regulators ever set foot in the door. Taking the long view of history, Sloan unearths the deep roots of the conflict over speculative investing and its role in our economy. It's a debate that oftentimes puts titans of American history and finance on opposite sides of the divide: Jefferson and Hamilton, over the fundamental nature of America's economic systems; a century later, J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller, the brother of John D. Rockefeller, who was thought to be part of a cabal of short sellers that brought the country to its financial knees. Further, Sloan reintroduces us to the likes of Ferdinand Pecora, the federal prosecutor whose investigations in the early 1930s revealed a wide range of abusive practices of banks, and led to the creation of vital legislation, including the Glass-Steagall Act. Don't Blame the Shorts is an eye-opening account that overturns conventional wisdom about short selling, and the vital systemic (and symbolic) role it plays in making financial markets less opaque, more accountable, and, therefore, stronger.

Download or read book Information transfers and learning in financial markets written by Bidisha Chakrabarty and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document significant increases in short positions on days when company insiders sell their firms' shares. Short selling increases before insider sales are publicly reported and often before insiders finish selling. Furthermore, the magnitude of short selling activity is consistent with short sellers' knowledge of the insider's rank (e.g., CEO, CFO, or a lower-ranked manager) and with knowledge of the unobservable size of the insider's trading position. We show that short sellers' superior timing is consistent with (i) monitoring of order flow and (ii) obtaining price-relevant information from brokerages that execute insider sales. Some of our results extend to insider purchases.

Download or read book Can Short Sellers Detect Internal Control Material Weaknesses Evidence from Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act written by Zvi Singer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine whether short sellers are interested in, and capable of, identifying firms with an upcoming revelation of Internal Control Material Weaknesses (ICMW). We show that short sellers accumulate positions in firms that are about to disclose ICMW under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for the first time when internal control problems are severe. We find that the short interest build-up is mainly due to the use of private rather than public information, which suggests that their trades contain incremental prediction power of the upcoming internal controls failure. Furthermore, the ability of short sellers to predict ICMW is more pronounced in firms operating in poor information environments. Finally, we find no evidence that trades by short sellers prior to the ICMW disclosure creates a cascade of selling that leads to an overreaction of ICMW. Overall, we present evidence that corporate governance information in the form of ICMW is part of the short sellers' information set, and we establish a path through which ICMW impacts equity investors.

Download or read book Strategic Trading as a Response to Short Sellers written by Marco Di Maggio and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study empirically informed traders' reaction to the presence of short sellers in the market. We find that investors with positive views on a stock strategically slow down their trades when short sellers are present in the same stock. Moreover, they purchase larger amounts to take advantage of the price decline induced by short sellers. Furthermore, they break up their buy trades across multiple brokers, suggesting that they wish to hide from the short sellers. This behavior may impact price discovery, as we find a sizeable reduction of positive information impounding for stocks more exposed to short selling during information sensitive periods. The evidence is confirmed exploiting exogenous variation in short interest provided by the Reg SHO Pilot Program. The findings have relevance for the regulatory debate on the market impact of short selling.

Download or read book Short sellers and Analysts as Providers of Complementary Information about Future Firm Performance written by Michael Stephen Drake and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines whether short-sellers and financial analysts develop complementary information about future earnings and returns and assesses whether investors can improve predictions made by each of these intermediaries using information provided by the other. The first main result is that the relative short interest ratio (shares sold short divided by total shares outstanding) contains information that is useful for predicting future earnings, beyond (i.e., incremental to) the information in analyst forecasts. I also find that analysts do not fully incorporate short interest information into their forecasts and demonstrate that analyst forecasts can be improved (i.e., can be made to be less biased and more accurate) by adjusting for short interest information. The second main result is that analyst forecast revisions contain information that is useful for predicting future abnormal returns, beyond the information in the relative short interest ratio. I demonstrate that portfolios of stocks formed based on consistent signals from short-sellers and analysts produce abnormal return spreads that are significantly larger than spreads produced by portfolios formed using signals from short-sellers alone. Collectively, the evidence suggests that short-sellers and analyst provide complementary information about future firm performance that is useful to investors.

Download or read book Insider Sales Under the Threat of Short Sellers written by Kemin Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massa et al. (2015) show that corporate insiders become more opportunistic by selling more and faster in competition with short sellers. By considering the possibility that short sellers may react to insider trading, we propose a new hypothesis that short sellers play a disciplinary role in reducing insiders' opportunistic selling. Using the US Regulation SHO program and the China deregulation pilot program as quasi-experiments, we document a negative effect of short-selling threats on opportunistic insider selling in both countries. This evidence is supported by insiders' concerns regarding three effects of short selling: litigation risk, reputational damage, and loss of incentive compensation.