title: Betting against health care.
abstract: Health care firms of all types helped fuel the biggest short-selling frenzy in the New York Stock Exchange's history, recently hitting a record 2.2 billion shares. While some analysts say this means nothing, the fact is that many investors are "shorting" the stock; in other words, they're betting against it. What appears as a lack of confidence may be nothing more than a simple quirk of Wall Street. Good, bad or indifferent, selling short is no tall tale.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Appleby
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000639:trends*; D005715:Gambling; D006269:Health Facilities, Proprietary / Q000191:economics*; D007449:Investments / Q000639:trends*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics