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Saturday, December 11, 2021 12:36:16 PM
I am hoping that ABQQ already know about this! Here is the highlight!
Ignore the comic noise folks!
"The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department have gone after hedge funds for running “short and distort” campaigns. The practice typically involves setting up bearish bets, then releasing misleading or inaccurate information about a company to drive down the price before closing out the position for a profit..."
"The U.S. Justice Department has launched an expansive criminal investigation into short selling by hedge funds and research firms, scrutinizing their symbiotic relationships and hunting for signs that they improperly coordinated trades or broke other laws to profit, according to people familiar with the matter...
Government attorneys are trying to determine whether short sellers engaged in some form of deception -- say, by misleading the public about their financing of what appears to be independent research, violating confidentiality agreements with authors, or orchestrating stock plunges to panic shareholders and exacerbate selling...
Some hedge funds have been known to suggest targets to researchers, who then deliver scathing reports...
Farmland also is on the list of stocks that the Justice Department is examining. Lawyers for Sabrepoint and Mathews declined to comment.
The Justice Department unit handling the inquiry already has a formidable reputation on Wall Street. It recently brought several cases against global banks and traders for illegal spoofing of precious metals and Treasury futures. As part of that probe, JPMorgan Chase & Co. paid more than US$900 million in penalties after its traders placed and canceled orders for commodities to benefit positions held by the bank or prized hedge fund clients. Those cases were brought by analyzing trading data for suspicious patterns and then attributing it to individual traders...
Concerns about how short sellers carry out attacks have arisen repeatedly over the years.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department have gone after hedge funds for running “short and distort” campaigns. The practice typically involves setting up bearish bets, then releasing misleading or inaccurate information about a company to drive down the price before closing out the position for a profit..."
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/hedge-funds-ensnared-in-expansive-doj-probe-into-short-selling-1.1694005
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