{"id":10071,"date":"2009-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-monitor-says-short-selling-ban-is-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/hedge-fund-monitor-says-short-selling-ban-is-rubbish.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund monitor says short selling ban is &#8216;rubbish&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News.com.au &#8211; An independent monitor of local hedge funds has rubbished claims domestic financial stocks would be targerted if the ban on short selling was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Fund Monitors&#8217; chief executive Chris Gosselin hosed down concerns expressed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to extend the short selling ban on financial stocks for a third time until May 31. <\/p>\n<p>The risk of damage from aggressive or predatory practices from short selling justified any loss of market efficiency or price discovery caused by extending the ban, ASIC said last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/perthnow\/story\/0,21598,25171794-5017962,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News.com.au &#8211; An independent monitor of local hedge funds has rubbished claims domestic financial stocks would be targerted if the ban on short selling was lifted. Australian Fund Monitors&#8217; chief executive Chris Gosselin hosed down concerns expressed by the Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3258,8832,67,8833,4758,8836,8834,2730,8835,2503,86,8745],"class_list":["post-10071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asic","tag-australian-securities-and-investments-commission","tag-chief-executive","tag-chris-gosselin","tag-financial-stocks","tag-last-thursday","tag-market-efficiency","tag-news-com-au","tag-predatory-practices","tag-price-discovery","tag-risk","tag-third-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}