Finally, after almost three decades, the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) will be able to offer short selling starting Oct.23. Short selling is an investment process which involves borrowing shares of stocks (or security) whose price is anticipated by the borrower to go down and later selling them at that lower price. The difference between the price of the security at the time it was borrowed and the price it was sold represents the investor's profit. The companies that would be eligible for short selling are those in the PSE's Midcap index (which consists of mid-sized companies that meet specific liquidity and market capitalization criteria) and Dividend Yield index (which lists companies that consistently give high-yielding dividends).

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