2008-09-24 — ft.com
``Trading volumes in financial stocks could dry up and market volatiliy increase after computer-driven hedge funds – the biggest traders in stock markets – have been hit by bans on short selling. Several statistical arbitrage hedge funds, which use computers for rapid-fire trading, have already stopped dealing in financials because their models only worked by offsetting the risk of long positions by taking short positions, too.''
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