Legal aspects of short selling

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Fields - Damietta University

Abstract

Today, it is rare for securities to remain idle in the capital markets; if they are not bought and sold in direct market transactions, they are often lent to interested parties or used as collateral for short-term financing. These transactions include buyback agreements and securities lending. Securities lending has become an essential part of the stock market activity in recent years, to the extent that the daily volume of securities transactions for financing purposes far exceeds the volume of buying and selling transactions.

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