The stock-market authorities finally put the brakes on this unadulterated speculation by prohibiting traders, at least temporarily, from selling shares they did not hold, a process known as ‘naked short selling’.
Les autorités boursières viennent enfin de mettre un petit frein à la spéculation pure en interdisant, provisoirement, la vente d'actifs non détenus par les traders, ce qu'on appelle le naked short selling.