Short selling

The short interest in some major technology stocks has increased sharply in recent weeks. The short sellers' view may make sense since these companies have helped drive the NASDAQ recovery.

If 80% of professional fund managers underperform the market, how can individuals like you hope to succeed? In a new book, Matthew Schifrin of Forbes hunted down 10 of the best-performing mini-Buffetts over the past decade to get their secrets.

Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts on a misunderstanding about kickbacks at Foursquare, the second stimulus plan and the latest in Google perks: servants for its employees.

Buy-and-hold investing has been a loss for the last decade, and low-risk options will never get you the returns you'll need to retire in style. So how can you find real profits in the market? As venture capitalist and business guru Peter Cohen explains, the answer may be in anticipating surprises.

Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts about the top iPhone apps (at least this week), the Standard & Poor's 500 index's climb, the argument for going short and why stocks may be in a bubble.

German lawmakers in the lower house of parliament passed a bill banning naked short-selling of eurozone government bonds, credit default swaps based on those bonds and stocks in German companies. The bill aims to counter volatility of the euro currency, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported. "Naked...

This year it's with no small sense of embarrassment that I had to unload a commercial property as a "short sale." I hasten to underscore that I'm by no means a big-time real estate investor, despite how the first line reads. To make a long story short, for 10 years, I had been renting studio space...

Numerous analysts have questioned the foundations of the current stock market rally, but the sagging economy hasn't stopped the rally from chugging into its ninth month. On Monday, the market charged out of the gate and held on to a three-digit gain all day. Though the rally has ground down all...

Galleon Holdings, the $3.7 billion hedge fund run by accused insider-trader Raj Rajaratnam (pictured), who is now free on $100 million bail, is shutting down. The big reason is that many of its investors -- college endowments such as Colgate University and state pension funds including the Virginia...

Blogger Jeff Matthews has an intriguing idea for a new SEC chairman to replace the long line of ineffective empty suits who have done so little to promote integrity in the financial markets: Jim Chanos. Who is Jim Chanos? One of the greatest short sellers of all time. Chanos was one of the first...