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[James Bond] In Casino Royale, would the villains scheme to make money be worth it?

In Casino Royale the villain hires a  bomber to blow up a brand new, state of the art airplane. The plan being that the villain would sell all of his stock in the company before the explosion and then the stock would crash. In the movie though, the stock will go up in price after the release of this new plane. Wouldn't the villain be better off selling his stock when it rises with the new planes release?
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That's not what Le Chiffre was doing.  What he was doing is shorting the stock.  Basically shorting is borrowing someone else's stock selling it and agreeing to buy it back for them at a later date.  Let's assume the plane company's stock is worth $100, and destroying the prototype plane will drop the value of the stock to $50.  Le Chiffre borrows 100 shares and sells them for $10,000, he destroys the plane and the stock value drops to $50 so to buy back 100 shares he only has to pay $5,000.  Le Chiffre  would make $5000 on the deal.