What is short selling? It's a high-risk strategy where investors profit from falling stock prices. Learn how it works, its ...

Short selling is one of those features of the market that companies tend to dislike, but for arbitrageurs and market makers, it is an absolute necessity. The fear for companies and investors is ...

Short selling allows investors to borrow shares from another party, sell them at a higher market price (eg ... on the JSE generate returns through capital gains and dividends.

This profit-taking was largely to blame for the market's weakness during the first trading session of the new year, said Jay Hatfield, portfolio manager at Infrastructure Capital. "At the ...