Bed Bath & Beyond says shareholders are asking about naked short selling

In regular short trading, an investor borrows shares from someone else, then sells them and waits for the stock price to fall. When that happens, the shares are bought more cheaply and returned to the previous owner, with the short seller pocketing the difference as profit. In naked short selling, investors don’t bother borrowing the stock first and simply sell shares with a promise to deliver them at a later date. When that promise is not... + full article