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Commerce Secretary Shorted Stock as Negative Coverage Loomed
11:07am PDT - June 19th, 2018 ge stock - The New York TimesWilbur L. Ross Jr. says his bet against the stock in a Kremlin-linked shipping firm was an effort to divest, not to profit from forthcoming news articles.