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naked short selling  

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  • Naked short sales comprise a subset of short sales in which the short seller does not first borrow or arrange to borrow the security sold. In most short sales, the short seller borrows a security from another party and sells it on the market at its current price. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Naked Short Selling]

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