Cost to short stocks slides back to zero

The cost of shorting isn’t back to pre-crisis levels, but it’s close.

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The cost of shorting isn’t back to pre-crisis levels, but it’s close. The net cost for prime brokers to borrow stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was, as of mid-September, almost nothing.

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