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"It has never been obvious what benefit stock lending brings to clients of the long-only fund managers that engage in it. All fund managers need to re-examine their practice and principles in thi...

WEST DES MOINES, IA (MARKET WIRE) Midland National announces an increase to short-term rates. Five-year rates are the highest they've been this year -- now crediting a 5.25% interest rate effective June 23, 2008. That's not all -- Midland National is increasing commission on its MNL Guarantee Plus® to 3%.

Playing with one of the awesome filters on SchaeffersResearch.com, I decided to check out some uptrending stocks with heavy short interest - a bullish implication from a contrarian standpoint...(Read More)

Shares in Pakistan surged by the most in six years as the Karachi Stock Exchange banned short selling for a month, tightened the limits on how far shares can fall in a session and announced a Rp30bn stabilisation fund to try to stop prices from sliding

AS the federal government weighs up new legislation for the controversial practice of short selling, a new transparency regime took effect in Britain on Monday, with the first faceless international hedge funds forced to declare their interest in besieged banking group HBOS.

If you are not familiar with the term Forex scalping it is a strategy used in trading where the profits come from very small changes in the prices. They are normally very short-term strategies that may even be as quick as a blink of the eye.

These are some stocks that have been tagged by users over at StockTickr: INGN: INTROGEN THERAPEUTICS INC Outlook: Short Industry: Drug Related Products New low on 36.35 times average volume: 2,035,531 vs. 56,000 (tags: short, New Low on Huge Volume) LMNX: LUMINEX CORPORATION Outlook: Long Industry: Medical Instruments Supls New high on 4.68 times average volume: 1,323,724 vs. 283,117 (tags: long, New High on Huge [...]

Ron Florance, director of asset allocation and strategy for Wells Fargo Private Bank, said that this is 'not the time to invest for recession, it's the time to invest for recovery. It's about where you want to be in six months.' In a radio interview, Florance said investors need to avoid 'the biggest mistake you can make, letting short-term emotion determine your asset allocation,' and suggested that investors focus more on 2009 and being positioned to take advantage of the recovery that he sees coming than in 2008, which the economy and market is likely to trudge through.

The Associated Press June 23, 2008 - 10:06 p.m. SYDNEY, Australia - Qantas Airways Ltd. said it may cancel more than 18 flights in Australia on Tuesday due to short-term walkouts by aircraft engineer...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is planning rules to make it possible for U.S. money-market funds to invest in short-term debt without regards to ratings put on those securities by firms such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the wall street Journal reported on Monday citing people familiar with the matter.