Reinstate the uptick rule NOW!

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) – “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke (pictured left) said there may be a benefit in resurrecting a rule that restricts short-selling stocks when share prices are falling amid the current bear market. “In the kind of environment we have seen more recently” the so-called uptick rule “might have had some benefit,” Bernanke said in testimony before the House Financial...