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of the short seller. Heinze's plan was to move aggressively to purchase the stock of United Copper. The price would soar high. Then, with prices high, and Heinze controlling most of the stock, he would force the short-sellers to repay the borrowed stock, a move called a "short squeeze." The
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with an authorized capital of US$ 80,000,000. United Copper combined Heinze interests in The
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Short sellers borrow, or make arrangements to borrow, the stock of a company, which they then sell at current prices. If prices later drop, they repurchase shares of the company, now at a cheaper price, to replace the borrowed stock. The difference is the
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of the banks of F. Augustus Heinze. From there panic spread, as people pulled money out of banks associated with Heinze, and then from trust companies associated with those banks (
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