Stocks, which had opened higher, dived into the close, with the S&P 500 index ending down 7.6 per cent at 909.92, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 7.3 per cent to 8,579.19, closing below 9,000 for the first time since 2003. The S&P 500 is now down 42 per cent from its all-time high a year ago.
The ban had prevented short selling – the practice of seeking to profit from selling borrowed shares and then buying back shares at lower prices later to return to the lender – on nearly 1,000 companies.
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