Short selling 沽空

    针对市场认为周五证券业协会等四家自律组织联合发布的《关于促进融券业务发展有关事项的通知》是“鼓励卖空，打压股市”一事，证监会周六予以否认。证监会新闻发言人邓舸称“这是误解误读”，不是所谓的鼓励卖空，更非打压股市。请看本报昨日的报道：

    China's recent liberalization of stock short-selling rules is not intended to encourage the practise, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said Saturday, after overseas markets dropped sharply in response to the move.

    In a post on its official microblog account, the CSRC published a transcript of a journalist question and answer session, in which it was asked whether the goal of the policy was to encourage short-selling and depress the stock market.

    报道中的short selling就是“沽空”，在股票交易术语中，short就是“空”，即看跌，long就是“多”，即看涨。Short selling就是认为标的要下跌时卖掉自己没有的股票，等实际下跌后再买回平仓。