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A heavily shorted small-cap rises several hundred per cent in days. What is the mechanism most likely amplifying the move?
- AShort covering and dealer hedging both force buying into a thin float
- BFundamental investors revising the company’s value upward
- CThe exchange suspending the short-sale rule
- DIndex funds being forced to add the stock
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