How this fund beat (and shorted) the S&P 500 Investing Finding US companies to short can be hard when it feels like the stock market can only go up, but some stock pickers make a living off of it. “It’s a year where the markets have been on the tear,” Scott Utzinger, partner at Crawford Fund Management and manager of its US long/short fund, told [...]
Short seller makes multimillion pound bet against 3i Group Investing Shadowfall Capital and Research has taken out a multimillion-pound short position against 3i, the largest investment trust in the UK, arguing that its largest holding, Action, is overvalued. FTSE 100 private equity group 3i has been invested in Action for over a decade, which operates close to 3,000 stores across 12 European countries like Germany, [...]
Short sellers circle Wizz Air amid share price struggles Business The latest data from S & P shows shares out on loan represent 13 per cent of Wizz Air's stock available for trading.
Activist short seller Hindenberg accuses stock behind AI boom of ‘accounting manipulation’ August 28, 2024 Activist short seller Hindenberg Research has targeted Super Micro Computer in its new report for “accounting manipulation”, as the group takes aim at the centre of the AI boom. The $32bn company has “ridden the wave of AI enthusiasm” to grow its stock price almost 700 per cent over the last two years, the group [...]