For years, the promoters of small public companies have complained about " bear raids " by short-sellers, investors who strive to profit from declining stock prices.
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On June 16, Freeman ordered Minkow to pay Lennar $ 584 million in damages roughly the amount the company lost as a result of the bear raid.
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One of the reasons that Dan Dorfman gets paid so much to talk about stocks on television is that he knows a bear raid when he sees one.
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In the stock market, if an investor does not have the nerve and emotional strength to sustain the hard knocks of rapidly changing conditions, he will find it difficult to survive any bear raid.
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Before Hanover Sterling failed on Feb . 24, it had complained bitterly to regulators that it was the victim of a huge bear raid, in which speculators sold stocks to Hanover without owning them or arranging to borrow them.
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Also, the uptick rule, which allowed short selling only when the last tick in a stock's price was positive, was implemented after the 1929 market crash to prevent short sellers from driving the price of a stock down in a bear raid.
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Representing what seems to be an increasingly marginal presidential administration, the Treasury Department is going to need all the help it can get to prevent the hedge fund operators from staging a bear raid on the large kitty of dollars it has to spend to defend the dollar's current value.
