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The GameStop short: what is short-selling?

By Ebeth Van Heerden, Head of Intermediary South Africa at Schroders
6 February 2021 • 1 min read

GameStop is just one of many high-profile companies that have been in the headlines recently because investors have been “shorting” their shares.

In the financial crisis, for example, big-name banks were heavily shorted until regulators stepped in to control the activity. The last couple of weeks has seen a frenzy of short selling take place in a number of places, including the silver market, the US entertainment sector and the US aviation industry.


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