Brookfield Office Properties Inc T.BPO.PR.A

Imagine THIS........

[CrazyTrader]

Company with NCIB bought back all shares exept 100,000 shares.... Which you own.  There's 100,000 Short.  

Company decides to REDEEM....

Shorts are F@#$....... You name your price.    $30....$100......$1000/share????

I don't know how it will work, just imagining things.

[CrazyTrader]

This F@#$ up situation can only occur due to basically Share Printing through Shorting.   We have 200,000 share on the books instead of 100,000.    The Long has 100,000  and the orginal long has 100,000 "on loan" yet still required give the shares back to the company.   So, you have 200,000. All just my opinion/view/thinking/understanding...... reason

[SONOFFERGUS]

Crazy, your initial premise is faulty.  There are only 100,000 shares in existence.  Shorting doesn't change that fact. I think what you're on about is that the SEC tightened up rules on "naked shorting" -- that is, selling short without finding the shares to borrow -- and the Canadian regulators studied it and decided not to do anything.  That means it's