That is something that has puzzled me for some time: long holdings are reported quarterly, but short holdings are not (short interest is reported monthly by the exchanges)
Temporarily easing restrictions on the ability of securities issuers to re-purchase their securities. This change will give issuers more flexibility to buy back their securities, and help restore liquidity during this period of unusual and extraordinary market volatility.
When a firm's liquidity problems are a motive for panic selling, it doesn't have the cash to provide liquidity to the market!
Anyway, there are ways to get around short-selling restrictions. This just forces a reduction of the leverage of long-short portfolios. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
long holdings are reported quarterly, but short holdings are not (short interest is reported monthly by the exchanges)
I assume firstly that more short sellers than not are conversant, even expert, with the "real" performance of corporations to which they assign negative cap. "Long holdings" reinforce current growth metrics and hedge complementary, timed short positions. The value of the former, required, is IMO primarily an artifact of regulatory expectations. Further, short reporting is more frequent; parity to long isn't that important, given an operating assumption, unanticipated and exogenous factors are always significant in modeling future cash flow.
Yes. However our examinations tacitly weight microeconomic characteristics, firm level conditions. Much less unique torts conflicts such as warrants governing disposition of securities by firm. It is customary today to opine in macroeconomic terms only, to generalize; none of which accommodate knowledge of INCOME from SALES accumulated by firm operations or even profit, retained earnings, operating DEPENDENCIES on INTEREST INCOME (LOSSES). Such is the value of finance capitalism, where productive assets are vested almost entirely in market value of paper trade or rents rather than real property labor, plant&equipemt, or even commodity demand.
Just so evaluation of any one firm's ongoing concern is dependent on its risk management strategy to accumulate unearned capital by lending future income at premium. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
