Get Ready: A U.S. Short Selling Ban Could Happen

Short sellers warn it will only make things worse.

Jim Chanos (Misha Friedman/Bloomberg)

Jim Chanos

(Misha Friedman/Bloomberg)

As the devastating health impacts of COVID-19 continue to roil markets around the globe, the move by several countries to ban short selling — albeit temporarily — is drawing howls of protest from short sellers in the U.S., who fear it can happen here.

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