SO YOU KNOW, WHEN THE COMMODITIES GOT KILLED AND KILLED AND KILLED, THEY KEPT SHORTING AND SHORTING AND SHORTING AND I THINK THAT'S ONE THINGS THAT GOING TO KEEP PUSHING THEM OFF.
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An ETF like Ranger Bear, shorting stocks, doesn't face that issue, but shorting stocks is expensive and results in a high expense ratio.
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Bafin, Germany's financial markets regulator, said the ban on "shorting" Wirecard was a first for an individual stock, although it outlawed shorting of bank shares in 2008.
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Hedge funds shorting M&S include Marshall Wace, which has a 2.3 percent position in the company's shares and is also shorting pet food retailer Pets At Home.
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Stephen Ketchum, principal of the hedge fund Sound Point Capital tells the FT that shorting traditional American retail stocks could ultimately be a better bet than shorting the subprime mortgage market.
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And so -- SARA EISEN: So who are you shorting?
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Kelly also said he is shorting bonds with the .
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Shorting the dollar is proving to be a risky gamble.
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These include betting against (ie, "shorting") assets and using derivatives.
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His firm had been shorting Netflix before today's earnings announcement.
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Trading to benefit from a decline is known as shorting.
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Shorting a stock is a bet that it will go down.
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WE KNOW IN THE PAST YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT SHORTING ALIBABA.
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Trading to profit off a price drop is known as shorting.
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The case for shorting European and U.K debt is more compelling.
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In a merger, the shorting party simply pays the merger consideration.
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As a result, more investors are wary of shorting the currency aggressively.
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The PBOC has acted aggressively to deter speculators from shorting the yuan.
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Shorting a stock involves an investor borrowing a security and selling it.
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BUT IN A SPECULATIVE PHASE, YOU KNOW, SHORTING IT IS REALLY DANGEROUS.
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Authorities have also introduced steps to discourage speculators from shorting the yuan.
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Rather than fall, Herbalife stock has risen since Ackman began shorting it.
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However, Greenblatt differentiates himself by shorting companies with nosebleed valuations as well.
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Lafferty explained that shorting volatility profitability doesn't depend on lower VIX levels.
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Musk has been very vocal about his disdain for those shorting his company.
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But you can see why hedge funds and speculators are shorting the dollar.
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Another manager recommended shorting a wireless internet provider, sending that stock significantly lower.
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The controller board will have a special coating preventing it from shorting out.
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In addition, this isn't the first report of Trinity shorting inmates on calories.
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Einhorn has included Tesla in a "bubble basket" of stocks he is shorting.
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By shorting the stock, he would make money if the share price falls.
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The Salient fund has been adding negative bets on REITs — shorting the securities.
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Seen below, they're shorting the pick-and-roll, harnessing Cleveland's aggressiveness against them.
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"We are starting to see some really juicy shorting opportunities now," Shah said.
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While he's not buying into the market now, he also stopped shorting it.
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Citron Research Founder and Executive Editor Andrew Left is best known for shorting stocks.
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"You should be shorting hospitals, long duration (bonds) and the Mexican peso," he said.
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He also told CNBC last night he's shorting some restaurant, retail, and airline stocks.
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People are shorting the Lyft stock, looking to profit off the company's sinking value.
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"They are killing offshore lira liquidity to stop foreigners shorting the lira," he said.
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He is also cautious on another popular hedge fund trade: shorting the Chinese yuan.
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He made his fortune shorting subprime mortgages in 2006 heading into the financial crisis.
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That provides policy space for SAFE to allow banks more latitude shorting the dollar.
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But that's music to the ears of traders, investors and funds shorting Treasuries, right?
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Inmarsat had seen shorting of its stock increase ahead of earnings, Markit figures showed.
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"During this period of low volatility, shorting volatility has become incredibly profitable," Lafferty explained.
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He compared the Trump presidency to a stock that everybody is shorting, or betting against.
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" On shorting bonds: "If we're short US bonds, we're betting on a stronger economy here.
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It added that its funds were hit in 2018 and 2019 by shorting IRB shares.
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Rather than shorting the dollar ahead of the conference, Auld tipped selling against the greenback.
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"I think you have to be careful about shorting human ambition and ingenuity," said Horowitz.
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Selling stock short without first locating the shares for delivery is known as naked shorting.
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But on Thursday, Guy Adami warned that shorting SolarCity's stock could be a dangerous game.
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Goldman first recommended shorting gold when it was trading about 5 percent above current prices.
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Niles said he's also shorting Apple and he holds long positions on Alibaba and Baidu.
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Also, Musk takes the shorting of his firm personally and has often commented about it.
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Shorting is a common tactic on Wall Street, and it's one Soros is familiar with.
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Twitter dropped 12 percent after Andrew Left's Citron Research said it was shorting the company.
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His role was to trade ideas back and forth, sometimes shorting the companies they discussed.
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The fight was over money — Blount accused Smith of shorting a package of synthetic marijuana.
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"Here's the thing: shorting Tesla is a waste of time," I argued at the time.
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Glenview Capital Management CEO Larry Robbins said Monday that he's shorting shares of industrial conglomerate 3M.
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Or maybe it was the apparent failure of his shorting of multi-level marketing outfit Herbalife.
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Remember, I do like Dexcom and they're doing terrific, even though people have been shorting it.
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It's just not the exodus traders shorting shares of the German bank have been looking for.
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Jim Chanos, who once bet against Enron, says shorting Donald Trump's companies was a no-brainer.
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If you're shorting Tesla, you're betting the company will at least stumble, if not fail outright.
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That's even more impressive considering shorting EM was the third most crowded trade just last month.
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"[It's] one of the greatest shorting opportunities ever," cryptocurrency Lou Kerner told Bloomberg earlier this week.
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While Left said he admires the company and thinks it's "terrific," he is shorting the stock.
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And people are heavily shorting this stock and I would not go against Don Wood. Period.
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There is no possibility of shorting a private firm, and market volatility is not a concern.
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Last week, five products that essentially bet on market calm by shorting the CBOE Volatility Index .
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She's also the person that taught us what "shorting" is in last year's The Big Short.
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Some are hedging on the social media giant Tencent; others are shorting the online retailer JD.com.
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We were told that by regulators, too, by the way—boosting is American, shorting is not.
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Shorting the dollar has been the second most-crowded trade in the survey since February this year.
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To prevent its electrical components from shorting underwater, HAMR is coated in Parylene, an environmentally friendly polymer.
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Instead, her response was based in finance: She asked her staff whether he was shorting Facebook stock.
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The founder and former chairman of Duquesne Capital said he's betting on growth by shorting bonds globally.
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The Saudi exchange's decision to allow the practice "will significantly expand our shorting universe", the fund said.
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We can't really do it for our VC bets, other than, perhaps, shorting the Russell 2000 index.
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He also recommend shorting the S&P 500 through ETFs such as the SH or the SDS.
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Chanos previously said shorting Donald Trump's companies was one of "the easiest short sales " he's ever made.
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The S.E.C. has said that naked shorting can be abusive and may drive down a company's shares.
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S. trade tensions, with investors shorting the currency as a liquid proxy to hedge against China risk.
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Still, where'd all the bullish Lyft investors go and why are so many people shorting the stock?
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The shorting pissed him off, so he demanded Yossi give him back the rest of the gear.
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Shorting the U.S. dollar was seen as the second-most crowded trade, followed by buying corporate bonds.
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Gordon acknowledged that shorting Apple could be risky, even if only in angering the company's fan base.
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Dan Niles, founding partner at AlphaOne Capital Partners, just started shorting Netflix, he told CNBC on Tuesday.
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When shorting a stock, you want people to not have any hope and sell and keep selling.
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Portfolio manager Brad Lamensdorf said he would consider shorting Snap again once more shares hit the market.
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According to Reuters, some investors on Wall Street are now betting against Icahn—by shorting CVR stock.
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EVANS: ON DUNKIN SPECIFICALLY, JIM, WE HAD THE CEO ON RESPONDING TO YOUR SHORTING OF THE COMPANY.
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On Wednesday, shorting activity was muted, as traders appeared in no rush to close out bearish bets.
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Bets on future falls for some mining companies, known as shorting, have risen to multi-year highs.
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For those investors hoping to bet on poor results, there are still ample shares available for shorting.
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Not only would that help eliminate hoarding, but it'll introduce shorting possibilities, the "Mad Money" host predicted.
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It also ordered him to repay HK$1.6 million ($206,324) of profits made while shorting the stock.
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Other funds with more centralized investment management also did well by spreading their bets, especially shorting stocks.
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But Tual thinks that's improbable because shorting in high sums would be conspicuous on the crypto-exchanges.
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Twitter dropped 1.83 percent after Andrew Left's Citron Research said it was shorting the social media company.
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" Icahn said he is shorting the commercial mortgage bond market and it's his "biggest position by far.
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Shorting Alibaba is seen as a way to bet against China's economic growth and broader stock markets.
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Thomas Guy's intellectual heirs, now styled value investors, continue to avoid bubbles and lose money shorting them.
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The worst thing you could do is revenge the rally, which is if you sold early, start shorting.
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To force the USB recovery mode requires shorting out a single pin on the right Joy-Con connector.
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Investors are replacing the FAANG trade by going long the U.S. dollar, as well a shorting emerging markets.
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Shorting the market involves the sale of a security motivated by the belief that its price will decline.
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In one short, he brings down the villainous Egghead (his actual name!) while his suit is shorting out.
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Gotham's Greenblatt, who blends buying stocks he likes with "shorting" or betting against overvalued stocks, predicts lower returns.
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"If the Chinese economy's in trouble, shorting Nike should've been like shooting fish in a barrel," he said.
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Famed short-seller Jim Chanos, Kynikos Associates, went on the record Wednesday revealing that he's shorting Tesla Motors.
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For every paper that finds a potential cause of telomere shorting, there's one that finds the opposite effect.
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When your gaming setup is your sacred place, shorting yourself with a non-gaming monitor just isn't right.
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He said he's betting on growth by shorting bonds globally and he likes stocks that respond to growth.
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"No one who is bearish should invest in a shorting ETF," said Doty at Koss Olinger Financial Group.
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Even wearing them outside on hot New York days has me a little wary of shorting them out.
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Irrational upward assessments happen too, but those aren't buying opportunities, and value investing is about buying, not shorting.
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For Faber, the strategy of shorting Tesla is merely a part of his bearish approach to the market.
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German regulators had imposed a temporary ban that prevented investors from shorting the stock between February and April.
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Baig tipped a top play on the new paradigm as shorting against a long play on Indonesia's rupiah.
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Partly as a result of Musk's leadership style, shorting Tesla stock has become a common bet for investors.
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Bets on market calm, measured by the number of contracts shorting futures for the CBOE Market Volatility Index .
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Shorting the Cboe's VIX, Wall Street's fear gauge, was a bet that volatility would continue to stay low.
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Maybe you want to get into day trading, options, dabbling in cryptocurrencies, or even shorting stocks or options.
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Shorting refers to a trading technique where investors bet that an asset or security will fall in price.
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In the end, anyone thinking of shorting Tesla's stock should remember that Musk's tweets could still be true.
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"A lot of people are calling now to buy the stocks as opposed to shorting them," he said.
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O) soaring stock have lost $2230 billion this year, eclipsing the combined losses of traders shorting Apple (AAPL.
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Doty said he and his firm are shorting Treasury futures, or adding bets that bond prices will fall.
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The most recent survey indicates the second most-crowded trade has been growing in conviction: shorting the U.S. dollar.
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The mild start to the winter heating season seemed to encourage increasingly aggressive hedge fund shorting of futures contracts.
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Those trying to capture the shift to surplus by shorting the metal are now paying the painful spreads price.
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Last weekend, he tweeted, "Dang, even Hitler was shorting Tesla stock…" along with a Tesla-themed Downfall meme video.
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The managers of inverse ETFs use a variety of strategies, including derivatives and shorting stocks, to meet their objectives.
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Other ETFs go further — maybe too far, critics say — using riskier strategies to focus exclusively on shorting individual stocks.
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THEY CAN'T SELL THEIR PAPERS, SO WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS THEY ARE CROSS-HEDGING AND SHORTING S&Ps.
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A 2015 New York Times investigation found nail salons in New York City were notorious for shorting their workers.
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The WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund (HEDJ) invests in a basket of European equities while also shorting the euro.
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Analysts say this combination indicates that investors are shorting the underlying debt: in this case 2-year Italian bonds.
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Shorting enables traders to make money by borrowing shares, selling them and buying them back at a lower price.
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Kacher said he is shorting the stock of IBM, which is down 11.5 percent for the year to date.
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Despite the interventions, the trader said his strategy was to continue shorting the yuan given China's weak economic fundamentals.
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"We thought Bluestar offered decent value, but that hasn't stopped some people from shorting it," said the fund manager.
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This is a guy who made his bones shorting biotech companies, which is easy, because many of them fail.
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For funds that pursue this type of research-heavy shorting strategy, Axler said, recent market volatility is a plus.
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The author of the request, Brian Sparks, acknowledged in an interview with CNBC that he was shorting Tesla's stock.
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Shorting an asset refers to a trading strategy where investors bet that its price will fall, rather than rise.
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Mr. Cole has raised $1 billion for his new firm, Warlander, which will focus on buying and shorting global credit.
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Block reiterated that he was targeting European companies and credits rated just above "junk" status, or BBB-, for shorting opportunities.
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" On management: "We are almost exclusively shorting companies where we think management has been a bad actor in some way.
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His prediction for shorting Netflix came as earnings pushed the stock down as much as 15 percent in a night.
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But Essner noted that investors have continuously built long positions in the dollar while shorting the British pound and euro.
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In China, where shorting individual stocks is highly restricted, hedge funds instead use stock index futures to build short positions.
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On Friday, traders went from complacent to a mild panic, from not caring to buying volatility, essentially shorting the market.
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The managers of these riskier ETFs use a variety of strategies, including derivatives and shorting stocks, to meet their objectives.
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Investors shorting Tesla Motors' stock could wind up on the wrong side of the trade, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday.
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So, in Cramer's opinion, only those who were in the wrong stocks or were shorting winners would ask that question.
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So, in Cramer's opinion, only those who were in the wrong stocks or were shorting winners would ask that question.
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"The reason investors are paying hedge fund fees are to uncover alpha and shorting can help with that," he said.
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They are designed to profit from a decline in the value of an underlying benchmark, much like shorting a stock.
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About 20 minutes before the slump, his trading system indicated an unusually high chance of profiting by shorting index futures.
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Investors were spooked, but those fears have eased and shorting volatility is once again one of the most popular trades.
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Last year's Chinese stock market crash deepened that sensitivity, with local media blaming "malicious" shorting of Chinese stocks by foreigners.
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In addition to the ISM data, analysts said traders were repurchasing the euro after betting against or "shorting" the currency.
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So, I made enough money yesterday shorting the Dow Jones Industrial Average to spend the next six months in Paris.
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Sparks is currently shorting Tesla stock, but has hedged his bets and been long shares of Tesla in the past.
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Steve Eisman, the investor whose prescient financial crisis forecast was featured in "The Big Short," is shorting electric automaker Tesla.
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"We expect, in the short term Centene stock will be volatile, with risk arbitrage funds shorting the name," she added.
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Analysts said investors were still shorting Tesla shares, or taking positions that amounted to bets the stock would keep declining.
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Selling stock short without first locating the shares for delivery is known as naked shorting — a violation of an S.E.C. rule.
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Einhorn is also shorting Tesla, saying the electric-car maker is in "such a bizarre situation," and its estimates are optimistic.
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IRB, in a securities filing, denied any irregularity in its financial statements and said the asset manager is shorting its stock.
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Right now, Hollywood is struggling to be ironic within a framework that naturally produces irony — and shorting out in the process.
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At its peak, in 2007, Falcone doubled his investors' money, Schneiderman noted, in good part by shorting the subprime mortgage market.
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Block also defended his decision to not approach St. Jude with the findings and instead potentially profit by shorting the stock.
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Keene is risking $100 to make a maximum reward of $300, meaning the trader could triple his money by shorting XLE.
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In this latest wave, the short selling of crude has been accompanied by shorting of gasoline futures and options as well.
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Pot stocks are notoriously volatile, and there's evidence a lot of investors are actually shorting Tilray's stock, or betting against it.
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Traders short selling Tesla's soaring stock have lost $2230 billion this year, eclipsing the combined losses of traders shorting Apple, Amazon.
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At its peak, in 2007, Falcone doubled his investors' money, Schneiderman noted, in good part by shorting the subprime mortgage market.
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We have a number of big examples of big hedge fund managers coming out and shorting companies saying things about them.
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Therefore every macro-oriented money manager is probably shorting the U.S. stock market and going long for a country like Germany.
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At the Sohn Investment Conference in May, hedge fund manager David Einhorn presented his idea, shorting oilfield services firm Core Laboratories.
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Shorting the ride-hailing company is not cheap because there are not many shares available and it remains in high demand.
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NanoPE is easily available and often used in lithium batteries to separate the positive and negative sides and prevent electrical shorting.
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It's estimated that Fortune 500 companies hold $2.6 trillion overseas, shorting taxpayers more than $750 billion if it was taxed domestically.
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Most investors appear to be still willing to do business with Deutsche Bank, even though some may be shorting the stock.
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"Tactfully, I would not be going out and shorting a lot of retail REITs, they've gone down a lot," said Crowe.
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"The nature of recent gold selling implies fresh shorting as well as liquidation," HSBC analyst James Steel said in a note.
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But it's not uncommon for an operator to make a mistake: Not tightening a screw sufficiently or shorting out a circuit.
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The dollar also fell as one of the biggest bets in the FX market for 2020 is shorting the U.S. currency.
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If there's a reason for shorting the I.D.W., it's the inability of certain members to see this as a fatal error.
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The basic Warren or Sanders trade is a mirror image of the Trump trade: shorting, or betting against, blue-chip stocks.
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The dollar also fell as one of the biggest bets in the FX market for 2020 is shorting the U.S. currency.
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"We are recommending shorting gold through a GSCI-style rolling index," it said, referring to the S&P GSCI commodity index.
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Selling or shorting volatility has become an increasingly popular way for investors to generate income in today's low interest rate environment.
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Unfortunately, these companies had no way to know who may have been shorting their stock and no opportunity to ask why.
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The dollar also fell, as one of the biggest bets in the FX market for 2020 is shorting the U.S. currency.
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He also said he was shorting 3M and Chemours because of the lawsuits they were facing from different states over pollution.
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The yuan CNH= has strengthened to 6.8284 from 1.153 on Friday, when China's central bank raised the cost of shorting the currency.
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Shorting the dollar has been a popular trade this year as deepening U.S. political uncertainty has kept the greenback on the defensive.
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Before the crisis, investors were shorting shares in excess of the available float, which added undue pressure on certain companies' stock prices.
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Gundlach, whose firm has more than $100 billion in assets under management, said he's shorting consumer discretionary stocks in the current environment.
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Water came down walls, there was a strong smell of gas in some apartments and there was 'shorting' in the electrical wiring.
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Alibaba's Joseph Tsai said he respects short-seller Jim Chanos because he has endured "pain" shorting the Chinese e-commerce giant's stock.
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"We're shorting puts that are below the market, so we're already in a position that is in a profitable situation," he said.
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In 2018, to hold the currency steady, the PBOC raised the cost of shorting the yuan by hiking reserve requirements on forwards.
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By shorting supply, a product is not only primed to sell out, but it also appears to be incredibly high in demand.
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Bafin said the ban was its first such ban for an individual stock, though it outlawed shorting of bank shares in 49.13.
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Since he stacked those greens, he has concentrated his hedge fund's firepower on effectively shorting the dollar by buying mountains of gold.
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Portfolio manager Shen Weizheng at Ivy Capital is shorting Hong Kong equities, which he says are highly correlated with the yuan's trend.
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"It looks like PBOC wants to maintain a high cost of shorting CNH," said Zhou Hao, Asia economist at Commerzbank in Singapore.
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If shorting (selling the stock to buy at a lower price) is not your thing, then perhaps stay on the side lines.
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Kerrisdale will short DISH using the approximately $73 million it recently raised in a new fund aimed at shorting a single stock.
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So what you're talking about is shorting a bank account as one-third of the company," he said Tuesday on "Trading Nation.
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Now you can make money when their prices fall via Compound, which is launching its money market protocol for shorting cryptocurrencies today.
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They can then view the interest rates for borrowing and shorting or lending and earning interest for each of the supported tokens.
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"There have been some managers who were shorting the pound earlier on," said Kevin Lyons, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.
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Some in the market have hedged the risk by shorting the Australian dollar, typically used as a liquid proxy for the yuan.
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Grammy voters have a long history of shorting visionary albums by black artists in favor of safer records by their white counterparts.
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Staying long the market while at the same time shorting futures limits upside, but was also supposed to protect against the downside.
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IHS says utilization, or the percentage of shares available for shorting, is only at about 03%, with 9 million shares still available.
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Even an individual with a financial motive could launch a data manipulation attack, by, say, shorting a stock before conducting the attack.
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Commerzbank analysts said the rise in the overnight rate meant that those shorting offshore yuan would face prohibitively expensive negative carry costs.
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"This isn't only about Musk," said Mark B. Spiegel, a managing partner at Stanphyl Capital, which has a large position shorting Tesla.
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The petition, which was first reported by CNBC, was filed by Brian Sparks, an independent investor who is currently shorting Tesla's stock.
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Ackman is also famous for shorting shares of companies and waging public wars against them, notably his five year campaign with Herbalife.
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Despite the slump and his prediction for further downside, Kelly told "Squawk Box" he would never consider shorting, or betting against, bitcoin.
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Since he has been shorting VIX, he says his net worth has gone to $12 million from $500,000 in about five years.
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Is it really all about those traders shorting put options on the S&P 500, believing that things will go well forever?
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Weiss eventually plans on betting against the latest major social media IPO, led by CEO Evan Spiegel, by once again shorting Snap.
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NEW YORK — Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates, revealed Thursday a stock he has been shorting for years: kidney dialysis company DaVita.
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It added that electric car manufacturers had seen the most shorting activity, but mining firms had experienced the largest jump in short interest.
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Rather than shorting the stock of the acquirer, like in a typical merger arbitrage strategy, MNA shorts the acquirer's sector as a whole.
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Sizemore prefers long/short strategies that buy stocks that managers expect will rise in value (long), while shorting those they expect will fall.
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Rises in the CNH HIBOR suggested tightness in yuan liquidity offshore, and that could mean shorting the Chinese currency has become more expensive.
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His strategy is to use a call butterfly – long a $230 call, shorting the $240 call, and long the $250 call with Nov.
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But short sellers aren't interested in shorting the current "Trump bump," which has pushed all three indexes to all-time highs on Tuesday.
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By shorting puts, Gordon predicts that he is set to make money in three different scenarios as implied volatility falls post-Alphabet earnings.
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That said, he wouldn't go as far as shorting the market, because he doesn't like to do so in a money-printing environment.
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Shorting U.S. Treasuries and going long on the dollar were the other two most crowded trades, at 16 percent and 9 percent respectively.
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Two days later chief bank regulator Guo Shuqing said there was no chance of sharp yuan depreciation, and warned against shorting the currency.
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Following this trend, Boris Schlossberg of BK Asset Management recommends shorting the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and going long telecom stocks.
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Casino's boss Jean-Charles Naouri hit back against the hedge funds shorting his company's stock in an interview given to the Financial Times.
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John Hempton of Bronte Capital, who has been shorting shares of Valeant, said on Monday he still believes Valeant shares will be worthless.
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He teamed with hedge fund manager Kyle Bass to challenge the patents of pharmaceutical companies with high drug prices while shorting their stocks.
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Glaucus has conducted shortselling campaigns against firms globally by making reports uncovering financial fraud, and then making a profit by shorting the stock.
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Shorting is a trading strategy where investors borrow and sell shares in hopes of buying them back at a profit after a drop.
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In anticipation, some hedge funds are shorting the nation's financial assets and some significant investors are heavily underweight Australia compared to regional benchmarks.
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He can't stand that they publicly vote against him by shorting Tesla shares and telling reporters why they think Tesla stock is overpriced.
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If hedge funds and speculators have given up shorting the dollar, they haven't thrown in the towel on selling volatility, CFTC data show.
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There is always more metal beyond the LME storage network, but it's not a lot of use to anyone shorting the time-spreads.
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And Tesla shares have jumped 274% since early last July -- momentum that is dialing up the pressure on investors shorting the automaker's shares.
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He explained why Kynikos is shorting Continental Resources during a broader presentation on the U.S. shale oil and gas industry at on Tuesday.
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The truth is that shorting Tesla as a trading strategy, using various sophisticated financial instruments, is probably worth it for professional money managers.
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"Foolishness is right next door to strength," Wendy tells Chuck when he refuses to heed her warning about Axe's shorting Ice Juice stock.
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In January, Viceroy got a lot of attention for shorting a South African holding company after writing a damning report on its financials.
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What about lavish cars or heavy gold chains or somebody whose hair routine has a good chance of frequently shorting your house's electrical circuit?
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Over time, moisture may introduce road salt or other material into the battery sensor, leading to rust and eventual electrical shorting of the sensor.
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Earlier this year Kerrisdale, which was founded by S announced it was shorting Biopharmaceutical company Zafgen and before that it shorted Straight Path Communications.
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To make money by "shorting" a currency, investors borrow it, sell it and then hope to buy it back after its value has fallen.
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Analyst Simon Colvin calculates that shorting among U.S. firms with the worst net income to employee ratio is now 63 percent higher than average.
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Calling the country "a borderline failed state," Chanos added that he was shorting South African assets, in part because of their exposure to Nigeria.
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Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman may have made up after their epic feud, but Icahn still insists Ackman is "dead wrong" for shorting Herbalife.
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He is also shorting the stock of Rallye SA, the majority shareholder of Casino, and TeliaSonera, a dominant telephone company in Finland and Sweden.
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Arizona cops are on the lookout for the actor, who played Chi Chi in "Scarface," for shorting his baby mama $1,100 back in January.
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This involves taking long positions in emerging market currencies of countries with high interest rates, and shorting other currencies from nations with low rates.
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In the vanguard of this belief has been the universal carry trade of going long the U.S. dollar and equities, while shorting precious metals.
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What you might call "semi-pessimistic" ETFs take long positions on their favorite, typically more conservative stocks, while shorting a broad stock index. 20.48.
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Plus, its Smart Charge Technology will make sure each one is being replenished at top speed, without any danger of overcharging or shorting out.
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Morganlander recommends buying the health-care sector ETF (XLV) on projected spending and simultaneously shorting the materials sector ETF (XLB) on slow global growth.
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All of the funds involved in shorting Italian banks either declined to comment or were not immediately available to comment when contacted by Reuters.
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Chipotle short-sellers are now up $334 million for the year, and the stock remains easy to borrow for shorting purposes, S3 Partners estimated.
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Because they are independent, they can make the types of bold predictions — like shorting Deutsche Bank — that they could not at their previous employers.
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If Republicans want to make it easier for companies to get ahead by shorting their workers, they can since they are in the majority.
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David Einhorn, the billionaire president and founder of Greenlight Capital, revealed in his latest investor letter that he recently started shorting US corporate credit.
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He is recommending a pairs trade of shorting the Nasdaq 100, which contains many secular growth names, and betting on the S&P 500.
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Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal have rounded up what money managers are betting on this year: • Jeffrey Gundlach recommends shorting the S.&P.
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Shorting, or selling a borrowed asset, is a technique traditionally used by hedge funds to bet that the value of an asset will decrease.
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So buying Berkshire Hathaway and shorting Tesla makes ample sense for those who believe Mr. Buffett's teachings — but not those who actually copy him.
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The US Department of Labor has uncovered numerous employee abuses at firms delivering for Amazon, including shorting worker pay and failing to pay overtime.
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Fearing a re-run, investors are holding back on shorting the euro, keeping it at $1.0860 and off a one-month trough of $1.0825.
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Chanos said he was also shorting, or betting against, other exploration and production companies, though none focused in the prolific Permian shale basin in Texas.
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Sandberg told subordinates to look into Soros' criticism and whether he stood to gain financially from the attacks by shorting its shares, the Times said.
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Both ETFs have expense ratios slightly below 1 percent, which is above average in part because shorting stocks is typically more expensive than going long.
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But Sago said it is hard to predict when and where a bubble will burst, and therefore, the bank is not interested in shorting bitcoin.
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That has happened even though the cost to borrow shares for shorting is about double for Herbalife — at close to 1 percent annually — than typical.
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It promises a dreamy 600 kilometer (372 miles) of range without shorting the theoretical driver on power — it's got the equivalent of over 400 horsepower.
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"This is the first couple of days of shorting data to show up, so I'm sure this is going to get bigger quickly," Dusaniwsky said.
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"There is no point shorting stocks when these three assets classes (investment grade, high yield and emerging market) debt are so well bid," they said.
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When Muddy Waters went public with the claims, it also disclosed it was shorting St. Jude Medical, which was preparing to sell itself to Abbott.
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The fund will be a so-called "long-only" fund, meaning it will not hedge its portfolio by shorting stocks, a bet against their value.
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Icahn came under federal investigation after CVR was seen shorting the credit market in 2017 while he advocated for financial relief from the biofuel program.
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The country is due to hold local elections on Sunday, with authorities trying this week to stabilize the lira by pressuring speculators shorting the currency.
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"The two major causes of dramatic failures with the larger units are overcharging of the battery and then the shorting of the battery," Kiklas said.
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The founder and president of Kynikos Associates said in a "Squawk Box" interview that he's shorting Dunkin' Brands and Burger King's parent Restaurant Brands International.
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" Worth explained that while the charts point to a possible pullback for Tesla, "breakouts can continue, and I think that's the risk with shorting this.
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In 2015, hedge-fund investor Kyle Bass used the IPR system to file challenges against multiple drug companies while being suspected of shorting their stocks.
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He issued three walks and allowed four hits while notching five outs before departing what was his shorting outing by a wide margin this season.
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Elsewhere in Asian credit, a Singapore-based trader said strong bidding was spotted in the short-end of curves as investors were seen shorting duration.
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"It looks like PBoC wants to maintain a high cost of shorting CNH," Zhou Hao, Asia economist at Commerzbank in Singapore, told The Financial Times.
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British newspaper The Guardian reported at the weekend that U.S. investor Steve Eisman, portrayed in The Big Short, suggested he was shorting Italian bank shares.
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Later, it would emerge that water had broken into one of the sub's junction boxes, shorting a circuit and melting a hole in the side.
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Later, the Pentagon fielded a submunition that dispensed spools of carbon fibers designed to shut down electrical power by shorting out part of a grid.
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One of EAI's best moves was shorting Snap before its precipitous fall starting in May, which created a 107 percent gain for the investment fund.
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Shorting refers to a method used by traders to sell an asset in advance of acquiring it at a lower price to make a profit.
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Starbucks is shorting cold drink lovers by loading up on ice cubes, and one thirsty Illinois customer's so pissed about it ... she's filed a lawsuit.
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In 2012 the European Union banned so-called naked short selling, shorting securities without first borrowing a stock, alleging shortsellers were aggravating the financial crisis.
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DFND's only "long-short" dividend ETF competitor, QuantShares Hedged Dividend Income Fund, has managed to avoid similar hazards by shorting companies with low or inconsistent dividends.
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While DFND is long Citigroup, suggesting it predicts the bank could raise its dividend, DIVA is shorting the bank because the current dividend is relatively small.
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If "Mad Dog" Mattis, as Trump calls him, is convinced that the president is shorting his stock, the retired four-star Marine general could leave abruptly.
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While Gundlach declined to name individual companies he has short positions in, the DoubleLine chief executive said he is shorting some restaurant, retail and airline stocks.
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But, at some point, Sacred Heart stopped paying Reho for that work — shorting him about 20 percent or so of what he was owed, Satti said.
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Chanos, who is famous for shorting once high-flying companies like Enron, said he continues to believe Valeant bulls are not analyzing the stock's accounting correctly.
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Many Chinese financial institutions voluntarily halted margin lending and stock shorting activities during China's mid-13.203 stock market crash, in response to heavy pressure from Beijing.
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Shorting ETFs may appeal to traders and investors looking for a short-term opportunity but should never be used as long-term investments, according to Mishra.
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"And instead, they're showboating and they're actually shorting out their constituents that they committed to represent by not coming to meet with the president," she continued.
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Shorting the bank's stock became a hugely popular trade, ensuring Deutsche's share price languished close to its late September lows for the first half of October.
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Adrangi, whose Kerrisdale Capital often announces short bets, said publicity can help create buzz around an idea and that shorting is essential for well-balanced portfolios.
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ON LATE DAY TRADE IN NEWS THAT WHITNEY TILSON FROM KASE CAPITAL IS SHORTING THE STOCK AGAIN AFTER PREVIOUSLY CLOSING OUT HIS SHORT POSITION IN DECEMBER.
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Don't look for me to be shorting Facebook or Google (I own both); they have too strong a business and amazing growth opportunities in new initiatives.
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"And instead, they're showboating and they're actually shorting out their constituents that they committed to represent by not coming to meet with the president," she said.
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Hui said he has also been shorting riskier, high-beta currencies, like the Australian dollar, the New Zealand dollar, the Swedish krona, and the Norwegian krone.
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Over the last year, investors have expressed their negative view of the bank by shorting its stock, or betting that the share price will fall sharply.
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He explained that LuneX intends to take a longer-term approach to investments by helping its portfolio and generally doing more than shorting and quick trades.
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Chanos is the founder and managing partner of Kynikos Associates and has drawn headlines for shorting other health care companies including drugmakers Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt.
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She rightly spoke out about those who made a bundle securitizing mortgages, selling them to investors, and then shorting their own products and lying about it.
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The bull market has been creating great opportunities for betting against companies, or shorting stocks, but the overall up-trend has made it tough, said Chanos.
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Independent investor Brian Sparks, who told CNBC last week that he is currently shorting Tesla stock, submitted the petition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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But Rosin, who does not hold a position in Best Buy, Amazon or the XRT, recommends shorting the stock right now due to the strong bounce.
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Also on Friday, Cramer jokingly wondered whether President Donald Trump was shorting the stock market by the way his announcements sent stocks down during the week.
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But Cramer wouldn't recommend shorting Wayfair either, because any fundamental decline in the stock price could attract potential acquirers to take over the e-commerce giant.
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A stabilizing Chinese yuan after Chinas central bank on Friday raised the cost of shorting the currency, is seen as boosting the euro against the dollar.
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Activist investor David Webb, in a newsletter on Sunday, said if Lam was a stock he would recommend shorting her with a target price of zero.
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According to Deutsche Bank's Torsten Slok, an investor betting a year ago that the VIX would fall — shorting the index — would have gained around 160 percent today.
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Speaking on Thursday at the Reuters Global Investment 22018 Outlook Summit, Greenblatt, who blends buying stocks he likes with "shorting" overvalued stocks, said the Standard & Poor's 500 .
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Among those who benefited from Carillion's demise, hedge funds shorting its shares have however made paper profits of hundreds of millions of dollars over the last year.
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"My main message to employees is they should focus on one thing only: putting as much money away as they can without [shorting living expenses]," Wander said.
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And some believe the yuan liquidity tightness could anchor offshore yuan sentiment as rises in the borrowing costs mean shorting the Chinese currency has become more expensive.
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"I don't think this is the most compelling entry point, but if you're thinking about shorting this stock I'd say hold on to your money," he added.
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Various positioning gauges meanwhile indicate that selling sterling in anticipation of being able to buy pounds back later at a lower price — "shorting" — is becoming less popular.
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There could be a situation where syndicate is trying to sell bonds to investors at the same time the secondary desk is shorting them in the market.
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In the short term, the critical question is whether the hedge fund long liquidation and aggressive shorting will continue and pile further pressure on prices and spreads.
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Suppose the EU wanted to impose a blanket ban on shorting the shares of banks, he says (some countries restricted shorts during the crisis in 22018-22).
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Kelly was skeptical about Citron's rationale for shorting Tesla, as the firm's executive editor Andrew Left outlined a less-specific case than he has for other positions.
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Greene, who made his fortune in real estate, is known for making hundreds of millions of dollars shorting subprime mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis.
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This strategy, risk arbitrage, is the effort to simultaneously buy the stock of a company that is being acquired, and shorting the stock of the acquiring company.
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She was referring to Shkreli allegedly repeatedly shorting her on what he owed her on salary, paying her irregularly, and then not paying her when he promised.
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Citron Research tweeted Monday afternoon that it was shorting Riot Blockchain, a biotech company that added "blockchain" to its name in October and saw its shares surge.
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Various positioning gauges meanwhile indicate that selling sterling in anticipation of being able to buy pounds back later at a lower price -- "shorting" -- is becoming less popular.
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Perhaps Bezos is shorting the stock and trying to get his portfolio to match the aggressively "swole" look that he is currently showing off at Sun Valley.
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The commerce secretary has been criticized for inflating his net worth and investigated for shorting stock in a company he owned ahead of a negative news report.
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That brightening outlook put pressure on a group of investors — mostly hedge funds — that have been shorting retail stocks, or betting that the share prices will fall.
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Their hand will strengthen considerably when Pelosi becomes speaker, and she can send over funding bills shorting the border wall and see how McConnell deals with it.
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On Reddit, r/MemeEconomy is split about whether to invest in "For the Damaged Coda", but naysayers should think twice before shorting Rick and Morty's explosive fan base.
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Ihor Dusaniwsky, the managing director of predictive analytics at S3, says shorting the FAANG group of stocks has generated higher returns than betting against the S&P 500.
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The strong report unleashed a bloodbath on traders shorting Tesla, the second most shorted U.S. company, after Apple Inc , in terms of the overall amount of money shorted.
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It was rumoured, after the September 0003 attacks in 2001, that terrorists had made money by shorting airline stocks—but the 9/11 commission report dismissed the idea.
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He also noted that he his avoiding shorting biotechnologies, addling they "do not make for good shorts" because the companies' scientific claims are hard to verify or discredit.
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To be sure, not everyone is rushing to bet on a spike in volatility, but experts do warn that investors should tread carefully when shorting volatility from here.
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Hedge funds have been shorting crude aggressively as OPEC members ramp up their output and amid growing doubts about whether the organisation could finalise a credible production agreement.
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Hedge fund long positions remain unusually large while short positions are still modest, so there is more scope for both liquidation and shorting in the next few weeks.
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While short selling was never made completely illegal, state investigations into "malicious short-selling" combined with restrictions on same-day shorting implemented in August had a chilling effect.
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Betting against the euro, or "shorting" it and predicting it to fall, is one way that investors can trade the upcoming uncertainty around the vote, according to Lien.
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"It appears to me the FANGs have a cavity and we advised shorting the basket two weeks ago," BGC's senior macro strategist Steve Cortes said in an email.
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Shorting by hedge funds and other money managers has been closely correlated with the rise and fall of crude futures prices since the start of 2015 (tmsnrt.rs/20oD63J).
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Hedge funds have been shorting crude aggressively as OPEC members ramp up their output and amid growing doubts about whether the organization could finalize a credible production agreement.
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Shorting is easy on the futures markets, however, as the trader simply buys a contract to sell a block of bitcoin at today's price sometime in the future.
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Ninety-nine percent of lendable supply for shorting Tesla's high-yield bond has been used, Sam Pierson, director, securities finance, at IHS Markit said in a Monday note.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said on CNBC television onWednesday that he has been selectively shorting shares in some restaurants, airlines and retailers.
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Some people believe that the Chinese capital market is experiencing a major crisis, of which they try to take advantage with speculative actions and even vicious shorting activities.
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This person has a stated mission to "unabashedly serve the confirmation bias of bears, " and publishes infographics via their Twitter account which illustrate the rationale for shorting Tesla.
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He got rich betting on the collapse of the subprime housing market by shorting some of the bonds backed by mortgages issued to consumers with checkered credit histories.
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Buying shares of these stocks, or betting against them by shorting them, might be a handy way of using the American stock market to place a Brexit wager.
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Mr. Soros is said to have made more than $1 billion by shorting the pound — a move that cemented his reputation as one of the shrewdest currency traders.
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More bad news for those shorting Tesla's stock: The company's shares shot up another 286%, or $22017, on Monday, bringing its market value to a whopping $246 billion.
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"Hustlers" is making bank at the box office, but the real-life stripper behind Constance Wu's character is slamming strip club owners for shorting dancers during movie filming.
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The move also meant those shorting the stock lost more than $80 million in mark-to-market losses on the day, according to S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky.
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Brent long positions had outnumbered short ones by a near-record margin of 19:1 before long liquidation and some fresh shorting trimmed the ratio to 15:1.
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"We haven't seen any sign of shorting or any sign that the batteries might catch on fire or lead to some kind of electrocution event following the crash."
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Just when you wear something, it gets wet, whether you think it does or not, and that was getting into the device and shorting out some of the capacitors.
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"Initially, the markets were buying dollar based on expectations of the amount of fiscal stimulus that Trump would introduce and they were shorting currencies like the euro," he said.
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With other people's things, a user never can be assured that the toaster will work without shorting, or even that a board game will arrive as a complete set.
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Last May, Gundlach, speaking at the same conference, recommended a comparable late-cycle trade of buying emerging market stocks and shorting the technology-led U.S. S&P 500 benchmark.
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Subramanian says the biggest opportunity is in these neglected stocks, meaning those that hedge funds are shorting the most relative to their weight in the S&P 500 index.
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However, over 18 percent of shares available for shorting are out on loan, according to data from FIS' Astec Analytics, signaling that some investors believe the price will fall.
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Astec Analytics data showed the cost to borrow Rolls Royce shares has risen over the past month, indicating increased interest in shorting the stock leading up to these results.
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But Paulson, who made billions of dollars shorting the U.S. housing market in 2008, could more than afford a Steinway, and also could afford the entire company by 2013.
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The short trade involves waiting out a correction in the markets today and then shorting that correction, all under the assumption that things will only get worse from here.
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But a handful of portfolio managers outperformed their peers by a big margin, largely thanks to smart stock picking and shorting in areas like consumer stocks and biotech names.
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"We are recommending shorting gold through a GSCI-style (Goldman Sachs Commodity Index) rolling index," it added, highlighting that traders should try to maintain a position with constant maturity.
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However, over 18 percent of shares available for shorting are out on loan, according to data from FIS' Astec Analytics, signalling that some investors believe the price will fall.
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But a host of firms, including Citron Research and Viceroy Research, have been shorting the stock, arguing that the company lies to shareholders and improperly inflates its sales numbers.
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A combination of key U.S. economic data — second quarter GDP data is due later this month — and shorting of the dollar has prompted some investors to trim bearish bets.
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Three weeks ago, Carson Block, an investor known for betting against, or shorting, companies' stocks, announced that he and MedSec had uncovered "troubling cybersecurity flaws" in St. Jude's pacemakers.
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Wilson added that he was also shorting semiconductor makers because the stocks have traded higher relative to some recent manufacturing data, and they're vulnerable to cuts in earnings estimates.
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In Shanghai, meanwhile, open interest on the ShFE copper contract surged to a three-year high in March as the price slid, suggesting a mass shorting of the market.
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He said that a potential upcoming fork, as well as the rejection of the ETF and tighter regulation in China, is the reason he is shorting the digital currency.
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The Hong Kong Market Misconduct Tribunal also ordered Left to repay HK$1.6 million - around $206,000 at the then prevailing exchange rate - in profits made while shorting the stock.
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They soon discovered that a chunk of metal, about 323 inches long, had fallen onto the tracks, breaking through the third-rail protection board and shorting out the power.
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It's a congregation of lights, some shorting out in sputters of electrical sparks but others shooting little geysers of radiance, which run from pure white to scarlet to cobalt.
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The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) also issued a temporary ban on the shorting of 37 Belgian and Italian stocks following moves from respective regulators in both countries.
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Valeant was the sort of company that Pershing Square should have bet against rather than bought into, but shorting stocks wasn't a big part of what the fund did.
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On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the SEC is looking into whether Musk tweeted about taking Tesla private to hurt those who were shorting the company's stock.
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Overall, Einhorn has had company in Tesla: Traders short-selling Tesla's soaring stock have lost $3.7 billion this year, eclipsing the combined losses of traders shorting Apple Inc, Amazon.
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The one luxury stock for which there is still shorting interest is Cartier owner Richemont, which makes half of its sales from watches, the luxury sector's most depressed segment.
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Bitcoin exchanges such as Bitfinex allow shorting of Bitcoins, and it is possible to short Bitcoin-linked exchange-traded notes on online brokerages like the Bitcoin Investment Trust, GBTC.
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Regulatory filings show that one of the firms shorting Wirecard is Odey Asset Management, which had a short position against 0.77 percent of Wirecard stock as of Feb. 8.
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By soaking up yuan funds in Hong Kong, the issuance of PBOC bills can help increase interest rates in the offshore yuan market and the cost of shorting the yuan.
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Citron Research's Andrew Left, who gained notoriety for successful bets against companies like Valeant Pharmaceuticals, said he is shorting Motorola Solutions because the communications equipment maker is overcharging law enforcement.
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FTMC that are out on loan, probably for shorting purposes - IHS Markit calculates the short loan value for the FTSE 250 at 1.63%, double the level for the FTSE 100 .
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In a recent series of commercials for the Galaxy S7, Wayne is seen pouring champagne on the phone and dunking it in a fish tank — all without the phone shorting.
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The central bank was also widely believed to have effectively tighten yuan liquidity offshore to raise the cost of shorting the yuan to arrest the losses in the Chinese unit.
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The naked short technique shares the same name as a practice that was outlawed during the financial crisis of 2008, as defined by shorting stock that does not actually exist.
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Block, a trained lawyer who started his career as an equity analyst, also said he expects become more active in shorting corporate bonds, something activists have generally shied away from.
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The stock rose 1.14% over the last week and shorting the stock has been the second most unprofitable short behind Chipotle Mexican Grill with $167 million of losses this year.
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Glen Kacher, whose Light Street Capital Management hedge fund was up 53 percent from January to October, said he is "shorting almost every retailer," betting their share prices will fall.
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Shorting is a trading strategy that involves selling a borrowed stock with a view that it will drop in value and can be bought back later at a lower price.
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The legendary short-seller Jim Chanos, Cramer recalled, more than a year ago revealed that he had been shorting the stock for about a year doubting the company's business model.
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We're seeing people versus selling every rally, or shorting every rally, coming in now and buying every dip," said David Seaburg, Cowen's head of equity sales trading, on "Power Lunch.
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If you're a Wall Street speculator who's shorting a stock, betting on its decline, then one of the best things that can happen is for Amazon to enter that business.
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Some investors have been shorting the Canadian housing market in a bet that the oil-dependent economy would struggle under low oil prices and ultimately push down real estate prices.
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You couldn't move your inventory and a lot of people I know in the high yield game were shorting off S&P's because they couldn't sell their high yield bonds.
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The Hong Kong Market Misconduct Tribunal also ordered Left to repay HK$1.6 million - around $206,000 at the exchange rate at the time - in profits made while shorting the stock.
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Glen Kacher, whose Light Street Capital Management hedge fund was up 53 percent from January to October, said he is "shorting almost every retailer," betting their share prices will fall.
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The cost of a line sparking or shorting out in dry zones like the California hills can be far greater — leading to not just a blackout but also a fire.
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Cramer said some on Wall Street are shorting retail as a whole on the bet that Amazon will continue to dominate the space even after a less-than-spectacular quarter.
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Steve Eisman, an investor best known for shorting stocks, told CNBC he's betting long on Motorola Solutions, an Illinois-based company providing communications systems for law enforcement and emergency responders.
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Lele is shorting the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF, betting it will decline given the country's excessive reliance on U.S. dollar liquidity, high commodity prices and a bloated debt load.
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It seems like just yesterday they were going through the Qwikster debacle or Reed Hastings was insecurely chastising Whitney Tilson in a Seeking Alpha blog post for shorting the stock.
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DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach, known as the "Bond King," recommended going long emerging market stocks and shorting the benchmark U.S. S&P 500 stock index and enhancing the return through leverage.
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Here in the United States, there have recently been calls to bring back the old uptick rule, which prevented traders from shorting on a downtick and was abandoned in 2008.
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"If we get to $47.50 on WTI, I'm shorting it as it seems to be a channel top," said Phil Davis, a trader at PSW Investments in Woodland Park, New Jersey.
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He also advises investors buy into Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese stocks while shorting the popular FAANG trade, which is made up of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet.
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Buying the asset if the cover is very bearish results in an 18% return over the following year; shorting the asset when the cover is bullish generates a return of 7.5%.
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Several market participants said state-owned Chinese banks were draining yuan liquidity in Hong Kong last week, which pushed up the cost of borrowing and shorting the yuan in the city.
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Donald Trump's anti-immigration and anti-NAFTA stances have made shorting the currencies of Mexico and Canada a no-brainer trade, particularly if you think he will win the White House.
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This week, hedge fund manager Douglas Kass from Seabreeze Partners Management Inc said he was shorting shares of the retailer after hearing rumblings on Capitol Hill about Amazon's size and clout.
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Public media in China lashed out at hedge fund "speculators" and regulators took a raft of measures to prevent the aggressive shorting of local markets and offshore trading of the yuan.
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There's no hard data on market positioning in the yuan, although a Reuters poll of positions in various currencies shows investors have been consistently shorting the yuan since September last year.
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But marketing coffee, shorting stocks, owning a sports team and selling data may not be applicable to a bruising campaign, especially with so many Democratic candidates calling out their immense wealth.
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"The currency is under pressure, people are 'shorting' it like crazy – I think there's huge upside there," Shing, global head of equity derivative strategy at the French bank, told CNBC Wednesday.
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Zhang Qi, an analyst at Haitong Securities in Shanghai, said the large week-to-date fall also helped take out some bets shorting the market, placed when share prices were higher.
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Perhaps the most high-profile example was the former Target manager Seth M. Golden, who grew his net worth from $500,000 to $12 million in just five years by shorting VIX.
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Ninety-nine percent of lendable supply for shorting Tesla's high-yield bond has been used, sending the cost for new short positions in the bond to their highest ever, Pierson said.
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The recovery is likely a result of steps taken by the country's banking regulator, which has restricted international access to the lira to prevent foreigners from shorting the currency, per CNBC.
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"The $6,800 level was massive resistance for three weeks and I think people were shorting against that and they just got their face ripped off," said Brian Kelly, CEO of BKCM.
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Shorting the placid VIX through levered trading instruments like the XIV, the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term exchange-traded note, was a lucrative way to play the low-risk environment.
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Steve Eisman, an investor best known for shorting stocks, says he's betting long on Motorola Solutions, a Schaumburg, Illinois-based company that provides communications systems for law enforcement and emergency responders.
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Many investors are shorting the stock into the lockup end, meaning they are borrowing shares on the presumption that they can buy them back at a profit after the price drops.
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Chanos, who made a name for himself by shorting companies like Enron, Tyco and numerous others that committed fraud, stopped short of saying that there was anything fishy with Tesla's financials.
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Companies that committed fraud — by shorting customers or illegally blending waste oil into their shipments — could have their licenses revoked and their trucks impounded, and they could also face criminal penalties.
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There seems to be an almost universal skepticism towards stocks and stories of three hedge fund managers who are shorting the market or betting against individual stocks and pulling their money out.
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The analyst added that FMC Lithium had also seen a large increase in shorting activity, rising over threefold in the past 12 months with 7.7 percent of shares outstanding on loan currently.
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Shorting the sector has been a successful trade so far in 2017: Pets At Home has fallen 33 percent and Debenhams has lost more than a fifth of its value this year.
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Shorting is a trading strategy that involves selling a borrowed asset with a view that it will drop in value and the asset can be bought back later at a lower price.
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If it's a frayed wire shorting out, sure, grab your soldering iron and get to tinkering… but if it's anything more complicated than that, you're probably looking at buying a new pair.
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Successful campaigns that exposed corporate fraud or dubious practices, including Carson Block's Sino-Forest Corp takedown and Andrew Left's shorting of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc, underscored short sellers' role as market watchdogs.
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Shorting is a trading strategy that involves selling a borrowed stock or currency, with a view that it will drop in value, and can be bought back later at a lower price.
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What we also couldn't have imagined was that the company contracted to feed us, Aramark, was reported 203 times in 220 in Ohio for shorting inmates on food, according to the ACLU.
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Adding insult to injury, Ross even attempted to profit off his disclosures, shorting stock in the shipping company after being informed that his holdings were about to be made public last fall.
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Alibaba executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai responded later in the day, saying Chanos has withstood "pain" shorting his company's stock and invited him to Alibaba's headquarter to better understand the business. Pain?
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Shorting Tesla is costing investors "over $1 million in financing a day to keep up," Dusaniwsky added, as the fee investors pay to bet against the stock is at about 3.5 percent.
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Hedge funds resumed shorting the British currency, raising net short bets to their highest level since May 2017 after cutting short bets in the two weeks before that, according to futures data.
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Because opportunities to hedge cyber currency investments, such as shorting, are quite limited today, those tools will provide little loss protection to those who bet that the Bitcoin bubble would never burst.
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"We, therefore, expect USD/CNH to decline once more consider shorting USD/CNH 6-month FX forward at 7.01, with a target of 6.80 and a stop-loss of 7.10," Ji said.
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With the money he had saved from a few successful trades, he started shorting Belfort and the others, covering his positions after the price bottomed out — in effect profiting from their fraud.
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Several years ago, when Tesla stock went on a tear and ripped through a 2014 high of about $300, I wrote a story about why shorting the company was a terrible idea.
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While some on Wall Street are calling Icahn's move the next "big short," placing bets on store and mall closings by shorting an index called CMBX 6, others are debunking the trade.
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Reuters reported this month that investors inside and outside China were employing various strategies to profit from yuan weakness, including buying Bitcoin and shorting Hong Kong stocks correlated to the exchange rate.
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The unwinding of the "short volatility" trade was expressed through many different trading strategies, including risk parity, momentum trading, shorting VIX futures, or by trading long and short VIX exchange-traded products.
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Shorting is a trading strategy that involves selling borrowed shares with a view the stock will drop in value and the shares can be bought back later and returned for a profit.
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That was when Turkish state lenders suddenly cut short-term lira funding to the London swap market, which was popular for hedging and shorting, traders and bankers said, sending rates rocketing to 1,200%.
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That was when Turkish state lenders suddenly cut short-term lira funding to the London swap market, which was popular for hedging and shorting, traders and bankers said, sending rates rocketing to 1,200%.
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Yang Xiaofan, Japan-based hedge fund manager, was however more pessimistic, and is shorting copper, whose price typically tracks global growth, while buying silver as a less crowded safe-haven trade than gold.
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Portfolio managers were especially aggressive in shorting NYMEX WTI, where short positions leapt by almost 25 million barrels in the week to July 23, the largest one-week increase for almost two years.
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Such deviations can happen when taking the pessimistic side of a bet is difficult—shorting stocks, for instance (ie, selling securities the investor does not own in the hope the price will fall).
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Speaking from the Delivering Alpha conference sponsored by CNBC and Institutional Investor, Tsai said, however, that he respects Chanos because of the "pain" he has endured shorting or betting against the Alibaba's stock.
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But on Monday, short-term foreign investors such as hedge fund managers who were seen shorting Japanese stocks on geopolitical risks in late March to early April were seen covering their short positions.
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Aggressive shorting of oil prices has been most noticeable in the NYMEX WTI contract, where the number of hedge fund short positions increased by 19 million barrels in the week to June 14.
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The central bank set a reserve requirement ratio of 20 percent from Monday for financial institutions settling foreign exchange forward dollar sales to clients, effectively raising the cost for investors shorting the yuan.
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In an exclusive video for CNBC Pro subscribers, Bob Pisani explains what shorting a stock means and why you must keep an eye on names that are being heavily shorted by hedge funds.
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That is because many of the big fund managers that speak out publicly made their millions (or billions) in a different time, shorting the market in the 1980s, the 1990s or the 2000s.
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"I think the biggest problem for crude at these levels is storage and supply, other things are ancillary - that's giving the people who are shorting it confidence," said hedge fund manager Michael Corcelli.
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"We've seen additional shorting in all three stocks as short sellers continue to build their positions in anticipation of further weakness in the sector," S3 Partners wrote on Wednesday after the market close.
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As interest rates rise and volatility returns to the market, this could be an ideal moment to be shorting stocks, according to Ben Axler, founder and managing partner at Spruce Point Capital Management.
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Shorting is a trading strategy that involves selling borrowed shares with a view that the stock will drop in value and the shares can be bought back later and returned for a profit.
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"The policy on disclosure of short positions is coming from the government who are under pressure from tycoons who don't like people being critical of their companies and shorting their shares," he said.
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CFTC data shows speculators, who have tended to favour shorting coffee over the past few years, trimmed their net short down to 16,229 lots in late February from 50,777 lots in late October.
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He allegedly beat up a concert promoter for shorting him $10,000 on his fee, DaBaby was held in jail for 2 days due to a warrant out of Texas for the airport incident.
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To be sure, this surge to record levels could be a so-called short squeeze, which happen when a number of traders shorting the stock cover those positions, pushing the share price higher.
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The pharmaceutical industry has railed against the IPR system for patent challenges ever since hedge fund manager Kyle Bass used it to launch a series of attacks against drugmakers, while shorting their stocks.
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The yuan has shed nearly 9 percent to the greenback since the end of March, though losses have slowed recently after the central bank took steps to make shorting the currency more expensive.
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"There are four fundamental problems that make shorting stocks especially dangerous, problems that are bedeviling these professional pessimists as they confront perhaps the greatest short-buster in modern memory, ... Elon Musk," Cramer said.
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The transparency we propose would allow companies to see who is shorting their stock and ask why, helping newly public companies find and maintain their bearings as they emerge into the public marketplace.
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Tusa had long been bearish on GE. But J.P. Morgan said GE now has a more "balanced risk reward at current levels" and removed the company from a list of stocks it recommended shorting.
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The difficulty in having an idea what bitcoin's value should be also means that institutional investors are not just staying away from buying the currency, but also staying away from selling, or "shorting", it.
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Other "Value Spark" Interviews: Strategy session with billionaire investor Howard Marks Value investing with Mario Gabelli Tilson on value investing, shorting, Buffett Of course, many of those companies have become cheap for good reason.
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Traders said the elevated offshore yuan borrowing rates in the past week were due to tight liquidity in the market and rumors that China took action to raise the cost of shorting its currency.
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For downside protection, Titan collects information about its users to assess their risk tolerance and hedge their investment by shorting the market index 103 to 20 percent so they'll earn some if everything crashes.
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"We see multiple breakouts, time and time again," said Phillip Streible, senior analyst at RJO Futures, who does not see shorting the S&P right now as a "prudent" strategy as it's moved higher.
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But the so-called synthetic C.D.O. was constructed in such a way as to allow another investor to profit by shorting, or betting against, the mortgage securities that were packed into the investment vehicle.
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Price moves in the next few trading sessions should give some indication about whether hedge funds have embarked on the liquidation phase of the shorting cycle or are extending their short positions even further.
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Still, short-selling bonds - as opposed to betting against them in derivative markets such as credit default swaps - is far less common than shorting stocks, largely because bonds are far less liquid than stocks.
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News that Muddy Waters was shorting the small Vancouver-based miner's shares had pushed them down 21.3516 percent in the United States and 13 percent in Canada on Wednesday morning, before trading was halted.
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Of course, a key component of Eisman's successful bet against the U.S. housing market came from shorting U.S. banks in 2007 as Wall Street's largest firms were entangled with bad high risk mortgage loans.
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Shorting real estate investment trust (REIT) stocks is gaining in popularity, as the government publishes plans to cope with any disruption if Britain and the EU can't agree on the terms of its departure.
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At one point, the demand for shorting the stock was so high that people betting against Tesla were collectively paying over $1 million a day in fees in order to continue making their bet.
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Since traders normally stick with just one brokerage firm, over time these new trading apps can implement more complicated trades, such as shorting / futures, and be able to charge a fee without push-back.
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The potential gains from shorting oil looked good when it was trading above $50, but consensus is forming around the notion that oil prices will bottom out in the upper $30 range, Kilduff said.
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Niles, who said he would consider shorting the stock if it continued to climb, also said he didn't buy into the idea that the upcoming 5G iPhone would result in a "supercycle" for Apple.
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Last year, Singapore-listed Noble Group became one of the highest-profile subjects of short selling, with Muddy Waters saying it was shorting the stock due to concerns over the commodities trading firm's financials.
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" Tesla opened its statement by identifying the petitioner as a "Tesla short-seller;" on Friday, CNBC reported that the petition was brought by Brian Sparks, an independent investor who "is currently shorting Tesla stock.
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Security researcher Arrigo Triulzi speculated that Viceroy and CTS Lab were profit sharing for shorting, while Facebook's chief security officer Alex Stamos warned against a future where security research is driven by short selling.
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They must therefore be robust enough to handle the high voltages such motors normally require while simultaneously being protected against damage from road debris and the risk of shorting out when periodically soaked in water.
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"While there is some risk on the 4Q18 print, we would be aggressively shorting TSLA now as the growth narrative appears at risk ... even for the bulls," he wrote Thursday in a note to clients.
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Hedge funds Bodenholm Capital and Coltrane Asset Management, which both also disclosed bets against Carillion shares to the FCA, made 4 million pounds each from shorting the stock since the July warning, Reuters calculations show.
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"Lead's a tight market, and it appears that traders are quite actively shorting the zinc/lead ratio, which has been overstretched for a long time," said Oliver Nugent, commodities strategist at ING Bank in Amsterdam.
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For the last 250 months, Brent prices have been trading in a range of about $303 to $230 per barrel, with hedge funds alternately buying and shorting the market when prices move toward the extremes.
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In some accounts of the tech boom of the 1990s, the small float of many new tech stocks made shorting them nearly impossible; as issuance increased, however, bears could have their say, and markets tanked.
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To play that theme, it said to go long an equally weighted basket of , , India's rupee and , while at the same time shorting an equally weighted basket of South Korea's won and the Singapore dollar.
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For the last 250 months, Brent prices have been trading in a range of about $303 to $230 per barrel, with hedge funds alternately buying and shorting the market when prices move towards the extremes.
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Read More Musk warns against shorting Tesla shares Nevertheless, Shake Shack beat Wall Street by 1 cent on the bottom line and $1 million on the top line, yet fell short of the crowdsourced consensus.
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Billed as the first conference to focus exclusively on shorting, the Kase Learning Short-Selling Conference in New York will feature industry icons like David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital and Carson Block of Muddy Waters.
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Most macro hedge fund managers, who can take long or short positions on a range of assets based on macroeconomics, do not think the risk/reward ratio of shorting sterling is skewed in their favour.
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Asanko Gold Inc shares fell 13.2 percent to C$2.19 before being halted after short-selling firm Muddy Waters said it was shorting the stock due to concerns about the company's mining operations in Ghana.
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One London-based hedge fund manager, who bets on corporate events such as M&A deals, said this left funds "shorting" Clariant in a tricky position when trying to assess the likelihood of Corvex succeeding.
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In November, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced criminal charges against nine other companies and 44 individuals for allegedly shorting customers on heating oil deliveries while charging full price over a nine-year period.
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Back in 2015, these included the setting up of a so-called "national team" of state-backed capital to support equity prices, probing institutional investors for "malicious shorting", and unwritten commands not to sell shares.
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Shorting volatility, or betting on calm stock market conditions, has long been the mainstay of institutional players, but the introduction in recent years of volatility-linked exchange-traded products opened this strategy to retail players.
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What's happening: There are too many hedge funds, and too many of them are using simple hedging and shorting strategies that don't work, Dev Kantesaria, founder and portfolio manager of Valley Forge Capital Management, argues.
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But the company employing the $228-an-hour workers, the authorities said, was cheating them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages by purposely shorting their hours and failing to pay them overtime.
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More recently, some hedge funds — concerned about default rates and state and federal lawsuits accusing a major student-loan collector of abuses — have considered shorting shares of the company or its competitors in various ways.
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In recent months, they've continued to pile into bets that markets will continue to sit still, while viral tales of huge profits made shorting volatility have likely inspired copycats anxious to make a quick buck.
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At the beginning of the month, Nintendo's portion of shares on loan was less than 1 percent — meaning that less than 1 percent of the total shares traded were loaned out for shorting by prime brokers.
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"While it feels like we have been running face first into the wind, we don't intend to capitulate and are sticking to our strategy of being long (on) misunderstood value and shorting 'not value'," he wrote.
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"From an intermediate to longer term perspective, we believe INTC's continued misexecution, whether in shorting certain Xeon customers, or PC OEMs/ODMs, should give those clients another reason to look more closely at AMD," he wrote.
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"Some people believe that the Chinese capital market is experiencing a major crisis, of which they try to take advantage with speculative actions and even vicious shorting activities," Xinhua said in a commentary published on Saturday.
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Some hold that shorting can become a self-fulfilling prophecy: If enough people bet against a stock, it can worry other investors enough to sell their shares, pushing the price down and benefiting the short investors.
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LMM's Bill Miller said he's shorting the 10-year, and Elliott Management's Paul Singer said the long end of the bond market was a bubble and Treasurys and other developed market bonds are not safe havens.
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"I am shorting Amazon today because I have learned that there are currently early discussions and due diligence being considered in the legislative chambers in Washington, D.C.," he wrote in a note to investors on Wednesday.
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Famed short-seller Jim Chanos, who's been shorting Tesla for years, recently spoke to CNBC about how Musk had attacked him on Twitter, claiming that Chanos had bribed a journalist for inside information on Musk's company.
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"There's some element of profit-taking," said Alan Ruskin, global head of FX strategy at Deutsche Bank in New York, in reference to traders repurchasing sterling and the euro after betting against or "shorting" the currencies.
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Investors shorting Santander Brasil pay over 20 times what they do to bet against larger rivals Itaú Unibanco Holding SA or Banco Bradesco SA. The slump led losses in Brazil's benchmark Bovespa stock index on Tuesday.
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So, if a lot of people are shorting a stock and management buys it back in large quantities, you need to start doing your homework because you might want to side with management on that one.
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Shorting pressure on the yuan, reflected in the offshore CNH options market through one-month risk reversals, has evaporated since February, and some hedge fund investors told Reuters they were backing off from their depreciation bets.
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Shorting volatility, or betting on calm stock market conditions, had been one of the most successful trading strategies until Monday, when a massive selloff in U.S. stocks derailed some popular short volatility exchange traded products (ETPs).
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In 2019, Citron Research head and activist short-seller Andrew Left — notable for shorting Lyft and Tesla — took short positions in African e-commerce company Jumia, after dropping a report accusing the company of securities fraud.
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Hedge funds have resumed shorting the euro in recent weeks as expectations of a diverging trend in economic growth, and consequently interest rates have encouraged investors to borrow euros and invest the proceeds in U.S. dollars.
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"There are four fundamental problems that make shorting stocks especially dangerous, problems that are bedeviling these professional pessimists as they confront perhaps the greatest short-buster in modern memory, ... Elon Musk," the "Mad Money " host said.
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The central bank's bond buying operation has also put a lid on yields <0#IDBMK=>, with the three-month cost of shorting the currency versus the dollar steady around 5.25 percent, the same as levels through 2017.
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COUNTER-CYCLICAL MEASURES On Friday, China's central bank said it would set a reserve requirement ratio of 20 percent for financial institutions settling forward dollar sales to clients, effectively raising the cost for investors shorting the yuan.
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One of the popular trades ahead of today's Bank of Japan meeting was shorting the yen on expectations that the BOJ would ease further given the recent weakness in economic data from the world's third-largest economy.
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Betting that Wall Street's calm will last, hedge funds are shorting the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index (VIX) — or the so-called "fear gauge" — "at rates not seen in at least 15 years," Bloomberg reports.
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The managing director and senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman has been shorting Zillow for some time, and explained to CNBC in an interview Thursday that the company's plans to grow its business are fraught with peril.
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Just as record shorting of U.S. crude futures and options helped push oil prices to multi-year lows below $20163 per barrel in January and February, so the unwinding of those positions has sent prices sharply higher.
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"We have had really crowded trades with the fast money all piling into these high-PE, high-tech names and shorting the value stocks," said Charlie Bobrinskoy, vice chair and head of investment group at Ariel Investments.
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Positioning is very lowHere's what Lakos-Bujas meant when he said the sector was hated: Systematic funds are shorting oil, institutional investors have "abandoned" the energy sector, and factor-investing trends aren't bullish on energy companies either.
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Various positioning gauges compiled by banks indicate that selling sterling in anticipation of being able to buy it back later at a lower price — "shorting" — is on the rise again after a brief pullback earlier this year.
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Investors had tried shorting some of them—notably Usana, another nutrition company, and Nu Skin, which settled deceptive-marketing charges with the F.T.C. in 22012, for $22016 million—but the companies endured, and their share prices held.
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He was now fully committed to the campaign, and, after shorting twenty million shares in several months—borrowing them and selling them at the market price—he was eager to go public with the case against Herbalife.
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Filings with British regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) showed Lansdowne was borrowing more than 0.5 percent of the stock on the expectation the price would fall - a tactic called "shorting" - between July 20.5 and August 22017.
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"This is the exact technical point where market participants should be shorting bonds and going long commodities, especially if this relationship is going to hold up and remain true which, of course, I think so," he said.
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And it would expose China to an additional end-of-the-world anathema: the growing number of hedge funds that bet against the yuan — what China might call "vicious" shorting — would walk off with big fat gains.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager David Einhorn told investors on Tuesday that he made a "large" bet on insurer Brighthouse Financial late last year, and had made money on General Motors but lost by shorting Amazon and Tesla.
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"Don't get me wrong, the Deutsche situation is worrying – I'm watching the shorting interest closely - but nothing where we need to take action yet," said a senior investment banker at a rival lender that does business with Deutsche.
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They have already amassed incredible wealth, and buying really only puts them at risk of losing, "Take a billionaire who made his moeny shorting the stock market in several discrete moments or going long in others," Cramer said.
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As a result the black hole loses a small amount of mass in each such transaction, the way hackers siphon a fraction of a cent at a time from bank transactions can wind up shorting it a fortune.
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" He added that this year "it does seem like investors and traders are shorting retail because they feel Amazon and other online retailers will have a great year and take more share away from brick and mortar retail.
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"The large brokerages are not going to be doing this trade because it's not enough market value for them, so this is probably more retail shorting and some smaller professionals," said S3 Partners' Head of Research, Ihor Dusaniwsky.
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So he raised eyebrows during an appearance Thursday on CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" when he revealed his firm's strategy of shorting big names in the U.S. market, calling a bear market by the second half of this year.
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If, as seems quite possible, Germans were to steamroll France and put their man in charge of the ECB, maybe I'll join you, with a proviso that, in the meantime, I can master some of your shorting wizardry.
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But a number of big financial institutions - including CME Group, CBOE and Nasdaq - have recently announced that they will offer bitcoin futures, which will open up the possibility of shorting the cryptocurrency to the mainstream professional investment universe.
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The trend is "perhaps pointing to the growing interest in shorting volatility among retail and others who are not specialists in volatility trading," Pravit Chintawongvanich, the head of derivatives strategy at MRA, wrote in client note on Wednesday.
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One possible explanation for the move away from ETF shorting is that active-management firms are making a conscious effort to separate themselves from the indexes normally tracked by such funds, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Trades that profit from markets staying subdued - or shorting volatility in trader speak - entered the mainstream in other asset classes several years ago, most notably in equities with products referencing CBOE's famous S&P 500 "fear gauge" - the VIX.
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Although a difficult year overall for Odey Asset Management, founder Crispin Odey who was a high profile backer of the Leave campaign, drew a sharp profit from shorting domestic equities including real estate plays Intu Properties and Berkeley Group.
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A recent rise in outstanding contracts in Italian government bond futures, a tell-tale sign of shorting when coupled with price falls, kicked into reverse last week in a sign that others were scaling back bets against Italian debt.
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He also bet against big U.S. banks leading into the 2007-2009 financial crisis, shorting Bank of America, MGIC, Citigroup and several other financials that ultimately averaged a 98 percent price decline by the time they bottomed in 2009.
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Alan Ruskin, head of G-10 currency strategy at Deutsche Bank, said investors who are shorting the dollar do not appear to be concerned about the potential for a Fed rate hike in June to send the currency higher.
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StoreDot's solution, in a less-technical nutshell, brings together a new combination of nanomaterials, both organic and inorganic, to both take in the charge and hold it, without heating up in the process and shorting the battery or worse.
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I had done a lot of stories about short sellers who were shorting stock, who had used the technique very similar to what went on with the Steele report in order to sort of move the tape on stock.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted about taking the company private in order to hurt those who were shorting Tesla's stock, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
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First, fail0verflow tweeted a pic of a little device that would make shorting the USB pin a simple procedure:Then, the team dropped their own explanation of the flaw as well as a tethered bootROM exploit and Linux for the Switch.
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The bank is barred from selling shares for 6 months, and both Goldman and its clients are not allowed to enter into hedges or any other transactions such as shorting before that lockup period is over, according to the Journal.
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Also Thursday, The Guardian newspaper, citing a source, said Moore had been shorting his ex-wife Allison for years on the amount he was obligated to pay her in alimony and child support under the terms of their divorce settlement.
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In Hong Kong, the overnight cost of borrowing offshore yuan surged by 326 basis points to 5 percent on Tuesday, the highest level since late May, amid signs Chinese state-owned banks were squeezing liquidity to make yuan-shorting more costly.
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More specifically, Lien believes that the dollar-yen is in "serious risk" of falling to the downside, meaning that shorting the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen could be the trade ahead of tonight's debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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There is also growing interest in "shorting" sterling - essentially a bet it will fall - with data showing that hedge funds increased net short sterling positions to $6.11 billion in the week to July 23, the highest in nearly a year.
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The heavy shorting of the stocks puts investors at risk of a short squeeze if project timelines meet or beat expectations, or if near-term oversupply of battery chemicals proves to be more seasonal than structural, fund managers and analysts said.
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The USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF) is already working on forcing devices to authenticate between good cables and bad cables, but this requirement would ensure that device makers have the proper provisions in place to stop a cable from shorting out.
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The IOC, which will name the winning host at its session in September 2019, has introduced what it hopes will be an easier and more attractive bidding process, shorting the candidacy by a year and reducing the cost for potential bidders.
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The ETF expert was referring to the late-summer swoon in Chinese stocks, but with the underlying China stock index down 9 percent on Monday, shorting China through an ETF was a trendy 93 investment that may be built to last.
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For Mobileye, it's a huge premium (the company was valued at around $10.5 billion at market close Friday) and is vindication after Citron Research started shorting the company in February, saying that it was "a one-trick pony" that was overvalued.
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In contrarian trades, government bonds, the U.S. dollar, and liquid defensives stocks such as pharmaceuticals or consumer staples were seen as the most unusual buys, while investors also saw shorting cyclical stocks and emerging market equities as going against the pack.
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Block, who earlier this year launched a $100 million hedge fund after years of churning out research at his firm Muddy Waters LLC, said Ing's hire comes at a time the firm is becoming more active in shorting corporate bonds.
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Traders were even shorting Apple in anticipation of retaliatory tariffs on the iPhone maker, but what actually happened was much less drastic: China instead banned exports to North Korea of materials tied to weaponization, pressuring the country to disarm its military.
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Khosrowshahi sat down with Bloomberg Technology reporter Emily Chang yesterday and kept insisting that Uber has the ability to turn a profit, despite widespread skepticism from people who keep shorting the company's stock since it went public back in May.
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Shorting a stock means that you&aposre betting it&aposs going to fall by borrowing the stock, selling it on the open market, and then — if the share price drops — returning those shares to the seller and pocketing the difference.
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But in a pessimistic sign, investors have been shorting the group - which also includes motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson and recreational vehicle manufacturer Thor Industries - at the fastest pace of any sector in the Russell 1000, according to Fundstrat Global Advisors data.
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SHANGHAI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Bearish views stemming from the coronavirus outbreak have increased trading activity on China's crude oil futures, as investors shorting the contract resulted in a surge in open interest levels to record highs in the past week.
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Short-seller Andrew Left, who runs Citron Research, told CNBC on Tuesday that he was shorting Twitter because of the increased focus on data privacy and the notion that Twitter would be the most adversely affected by regulations on the space.
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Hedge funds that bet on mergers and acquisitions often seek to play both sides of a transaction by shorting the acquirer on the expectation that its shares will fall while the company that is being acquired will enjoy a boost.
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Sandberg was reportedly attempting to gauge whether Soros stood to gain financially from the attacks by shorting Facebook's shares, a practice in which traders can bet against a company by selling shares they don't own and buying them back at a lower price.
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"It is going to break up," said Blaiklock, whose hero is Michael Burry, a hedge fund manager whose shorting of subprime mortgages ahead of the 2008 financial crisis won him a fortune and a place in Michael Lewis's book, The Big Short.
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On Thursday night, after the meeting, Facebook confirmed stories that Sandberg had asked for research on whether Soros was shorting its stock, but said efforts to look into his motivations in criticizing the firm had already begun when she made the request.
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Of the major brokers, only one, Interactive Brokers, is letting their customers trade the futures contracts and they are not allowing customers to bet that the price of the contracts will fall, known as shorting, thanks to the volatility of bitcoin in general.
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My advice is be very careful if you're shorting this stock because, in the end, this is one of those animal-spirited stocks that's really based on the deposits and the interest in the cheaper car," Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street.
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While Jainz believes it is still too early to start shorting too aggressively given expectations for a buoyant first and second-quarter earnings' season, he believes over the course of this year, more returns are likely to owe to short positioning than long.
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Shorting, or betting that stocks will drop, as well as opportunistic credit investments and identifying mispriced intrinsic value securities, are other areas where Third Point can compete in a world increasingly dominated by computer driven trading and passive investments like index funds.
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TIFs (as Bogle calls traditional index funds) is no doubt wider, given that the ETF investor base is much different and the use cases for ETFs are far more varied (hedging, shorting, arb trades, etc.) than those for TIFs (buy, hold, rebalance).
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"A stronger dollar is going to put more downward pressure on industrial names and larger cap companies that are more global to begin with," said Chris Retzler, a portfolio manager at Needham Funds who suggested that he was shorting the U.S. market.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Investors are shorting second-tier Australian banks while the majors enjoy their biggest rally in three years, as the market weighs up the long-term impact of a public inquiry that exposed widespread misconduct in the financial sector last year.
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In contrast, Left said it would be difficult to make money shorting Alphabet and Amazon, as Google was "a cash cow" similar to Apple, and Amazon should benefit from online shopping, a trend not likely to fade in the next five years.
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Shanghai Minghong Investment Management Co told a recent roadshow, that by shorting index futures while buying a select group of stocks expected to outperform the index, its "market neutral" funds benefited from the share tumble triggered by Trump's tariff threats against China.
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David Einhorn, known for shorting Lehman Brothers before the 20163 financial crisis and the Wall Street firm's bankruptcy, announced a short position in oil and gas services company Core Laboratories NV, a company which he said was far more cyclical than the market realizes.
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It has 25+ US clients at this point, says co-founder and CEO Thomas Walle, who are using its location data platform for all sorts of purposes — from targeted marketing to footfall mapping for city, real estate and retail planning, and even for shorting stock.
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"So they overcompensated by shorting anything related to the coronavirus right into the teeth of the downturn." has registered 8.5 million members on its new loyalty program in less than a year and "we're just getting started," Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung told Cramer.
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It would have been profitable this week, for example, to "buy the spread" between higher-priced Brent and lower-priced Shanghai by going long in the European contract and shorting Asia's as the spread widened from $1.60 a barrel on Monday to $4.60 on Wednesday.
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"The shorting started on Friday, but once the stock dropped 10% in the first 15 minutes of trading on Monday, it became a momentum and technical short because it was such a quick and savage move," said Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of predictive analytics at S3.
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In 2017, traders have suffered paper losses of $793 billion betting against Tesla by shorting its shares, equivalent to 23 percent of the stock's average daily short interest during that time of $8.5 billion, according to an estimate by S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm.
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If you see steep discounts at the city's tallest buildings anytime soon, you may still not be able to afford a multi-million dollar apartment, but you can make money shorting those entities most exposed to an edifice that is likely about to get wrecked.
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Essentially, the police believe that the suspect, Sergej W, was trying to profit from the team's loss of assets—in this case, human life—by shorting his stocks of Dortmund, the only German team that is publicly traded, and then targeting the team's players.
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The onshore market has shown more stability, with short sellers shying away from shorting the currency since the authorities engineered a jump in offshore borrowing costs earlier this month, but traders say sentiment remains weak on views the yuan may soon resume its downward trend.
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On April 8, there was some unusually large shorting activity for EA, with what appeared to be one or two traders borrowing around $40 million worth of shares to short them, said Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of research at S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm.
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With an immediate increase in the stock price, driven by investor belief that the firm may go private and stockholders will receive a 20-percent premium on their shares, those shorting the stock will suffer an immediate loss to the value of their positions.
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A White Paper published on Tuesday by ASIFMA, which represents over 100 global financial institutions, suggested a range of policy changes, including loosening investment quotas and repatriation limits for overseas investors, breaking up Beijing's monopoly on forex trading platforms and introducing more shorting activities.
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The movie channels your anger at the banks that came up with the perilous financial instruments that devastated the economy, but it leaves you no room to despise the charmingly eccentric rogue geniuses who made hundreds of millions of dollars shorting the housing market.
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More to that point, there are more than enough online reviews about microwaves shorting out and bursting into flames than even we have time to read, and that's enough to scare us into spending a little more for some peace of mind in the kitchen.
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"People are scared out of their minds — they are in really rough shape," said Seth Golden, who left his job as a manager at a Target store to take up shorting VIX as a full-time business from his living room in Ocala, Fla.
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His bid has come under more fire in recent weeks with disclosures of his having had a $75,000 income tax lien, being found in contempt of court for shorting his ex-wife on more than $300,000 in a divorce settlement, and writing humor columns about women.
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"Bubbles can go on for much longer, and get much bigger, than anybody ever predicted before they start, and therefore when you're shorting something you need to be very very careful," Peter Fitzgerald, head of multi-assets at Aviva Investors, told the Reuters Summit in London.
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Compare also the amount of shares in the FTSE 250 that are out on loan, probably for shorting purposes - IHS Markit calculates the short loan value for the FTSE 250 at 1.63%, double the level for the FTSE 100, an index with more exporters and international firms.
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"(Turkey has) a high level of dollar debt, a lack of independent decision making by the central bank, a lack of inflation targeting which results in wiping out euro denominated financial markets, shorting the duration of lira financial instruments and reinforcing this burden of indebtedness," Guriev said.
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"There is likely to be some short covering today given that sentiment across the world is positive in stocks and some traders have been viewing the poor economic indicators of the euro zone as justification for shorting the euro zone," said CMC Markets analyst David Madden.
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"Shorting the EWW ETF may be a vehicle to bet on Mr. Trump's success in being elected the next president of the U.S. and his willingness to address the long-standing Mexican trade imbalance," Ihor Dusaniwsky, S3 Partners' head of research, said in an email interview.
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"There isn't a huge rush to short this name, to say that the deal isn't going to happen, but if you look at sentiment, there has been some active shorting ahead of this deal being finalized," said Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of research at S3 in New York.
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Markopolos also dismissed claims by GE that he will profit from the fall in the company's stock price because he is working with a firm that is shorting GE stock -- betting that the price will go down so it can make money off of the decline.
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ETFs make it easy to chase performance of the hottest segments and short the worst-performing ones, but investors have a history of piling into hot ETFs after the easy money has been already made, or shorting the weakest segments after they have already hit a bottom.
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She was buoyed by the progressive political surge reflected in the Occupy Wall Street movement that said greedy bankers destroyed the American economy and there must be something criminal about bankers shorting mortgage-backed securities from their personal portfolios while aggressively selling them to their banks' customers.
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Among the top 10 bond exchange-traded products ranked by year-to-date performance, only one is a U.S. bond bet, and it is shorting U.S. treasury bonds: the Barclays Inverse US Treasury Aggregate ETN (TAPR), which has returned 26 percent betting against the U.S. bond market.
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This young Greek player, the reigning league M.V.P., is spectacularly talented — a lean 210-foot-26 with a pterodactyl's wingspan and a gymnast's balance — but his jump shot sometimes still flickers like a lamp shorting out, and it was wise to expect a drive to the hoop.
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Other incidents have occurred after aggressive collisions ruptured the battery packs shorting out their cells and, in some cases, making things worse by dousing them with coolant That is leading manufacturers to design packs so they are even less likely to crack open or short out should that happen.
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"From the first database for hedge funds, early seeding of managers and shorting credit and subprime before the financial crisis, to his most recent passion for machine learning, Jeff held forward-thinking original ideas and a drive to bring them to fruition," added Seides, who hosts Capital Allocators podcast.
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A hedge fund manager who had made more than 2 million pounds shorting the stock told Reuters Carillion was "one of the companies we think is worth the least in our portfolio" and had suffered from "too much leverage, (a) bad management team... (and) contracts which are not profitable".
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WHAT ARE INVESTORS -- HOW MUCH TIME YOUR SPENDING IN WASHINGTON AND WHAT ARE INVESTORS SUPPOSED TO TAKE AWAY FROM THESE BIG HEADLINES ON 5.1 BILLION MORTGAGE SETTLEMENT AND I AM ALSO ASSUMING YOUR REFERRING TO THE NAKED SHORTING ISSUE BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS BLANKFEIN: I WASN'T.
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In theory, at least, hedge funds are supposed to generate returns in bear as well as bull markets, because the contents of their dustbusters are hedged, by the managers taking long positions on assets that are expected to increase in value and shorting those they expect will decrease.
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"I've got guys pitching me all the time on short ideas and I love to hear them, but in this environment I've been burned too many times and I'm gun shy about shorting anything that has any viability," said Mark Spiegel, portfolio manager of hedge fund Stanphyl Capital Partners.
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Since the XIV is continually engaged in the process of shorting appropriate amounts of the two soonest-to-expire VIX contracts, the managers of the XIV are perpetually buying back cheaper, sooner-to-expire VIX futures in order to short more of the more-expensive, longer-dated VIX futures.
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The 22018-day correlation has been near 723 percent, according to ING's Oliver Nugent, a degree of synchronization that "hasn't been seen since the yuan was first liberalised in mid-229 and the devaluation made a long (Shanghai) vs short CME copper arbitrage the topical trade for shorting the yuan".
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On the surface, Chuck Rhoades Jr. (Paul Giamatti)—the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York—should have the noble advantage over Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), a billionaire hedge-fund mogul who made a fortune on September 11 by shorting aviation and shipping stocks between the two tower hits.
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Speaking at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, the closely-watched DoubleLine Capital LP chief executive officer recommended a pair trade of shorting, or betting against, Facebook while betting on gains in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks oil-and-gas explorers and producers who could benefit from rising inflation.
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We asked pi-top to confirm what steps it has taken to mitigate the risk of pi–top 3 components overheating and posing a safety risk via the same sort of shorting failure experienced by Cornell Tech — and to confirm whether it has informed existing users of the risk from this failure mode.
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Those documents show that his ex-wife Allison had accused him of adultery, of subjecting her to "emotional and psychological abuse," and of shorting her on more than $300,000 he had agreed to pay her in a divorce settlement, alimony and child support until a judge held him in contempt of court.
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Wireless Headphones Wireless headphones can also solve more mini non-problem problems: There are no wires to get caught on your jacket and yank the buds out of your ears; no plug to get worn down and start shorting out; and, most important, you're free of untangling those eternally tangled earbud wires.
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"We think it's especially interesting that there is now more XIV trading than VXX, perhaps pointing to the growing interest in shorting volatility among retail [investors] and others who are not specialists in volatility trading," Pravit Chintawongvanich, head of derivatives strategy at Macro Risk Advisors, wrote in a Wednesday note to clients.
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Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was slammed Thursday with a 229-count indictment by a federal grand jury in California that accuses him of ripping off clients— including a mentally ill paraplegic — for millions of dollars, shorting the IRS of millions more, swiping millions of dollars in employment taxes from his coffee company, and perjury.
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"We started shorting the stock in the low $100s, added to it in the $200s, choked on it at $290 but stayed short and added to the stock as recently as early this year," the Kynikos Associates founder told CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report" on the sidelines of the Delivering Alpha conference in New York.
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" Referring to Silbert's message to the investor who was shorting ethereum classic, Schmeltz added: "If you have a fund that is issuing a security and the value of the security rises and falls with the price of a cryptocurrency and you are telling people to close their shorts in that cryptocurrency, that is a problem.
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European and U.S. hedge funds have been "expressing their negative views on the Chinese and Hong Kong economies slowing and the U.S.-China trade conflict through shorting the renminbi and the Hong Kong dollar," said Louis Lu, a fund manager and head of quantitative and alternative investment at CSOP Asset Management in Hong Kong.
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Shorting stocks, or placing a bet that a stock will fall by borrowing shares to sell them and then rebuying them at a later date, is a common strategy among investors; according to financial analytics company S1763 Partners, as of August 2017, nine of the 12 most-shorted stocks in the US were in the technology sector.
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Court records from Stephen Moore's divorce paint President Donald Trump's nominee for the Federal Reserve Board as a brazen philanderer who openly talked about his mistress in front of his kids — and then continued shorting his ex-wife on tens of thousands of dollars of alimony and child support even after a judge held him in contempt of court.
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Last month, Forbes reported that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's claims that he had divested from a significant number of his holdings were a bunch of hooey—and that Ross, in a brazen move, attempted to profit off Forbes's disclosure of his corruption by shorting the stock of a Russian shipping company he had a large stake in.
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Hurricane Sandy in 2012 meant another $6.25 billion in debt, along with allegations that insurance companies distributing FEMA funds were shorting policyholders; 2016, when there were floods in Louisiana, Texas, Virginia and elsewhere, managed to be the third-most-expensive year in the N.F.I.P.'s history even with no single standout catastrophe, deepening the hole further.
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"When money is flowing into stocks, with the mutual funds buying in endless waves and the hedge funds desperate to own stocks rather than shorting them, then you're in the land of the thousand bull dances and you don't have to worry about where the fuel for a rally is going to come from," the "Mad Money " host said.
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"When money is flowing into stocks, with the mutual funds buying in endless waves and the hedge funds desperate to own stocks rather than shorting them, then you're in the land of the thousand bull dances and you don't have to worry about where the fuel for a rally is going to come from," Cramer said.
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But people on Wall Street say a combination of banks' worries about sullying their reputations by appearing to benefit from the financial struggles of students, the relatively small number of market participants who use complex shorting tools, and the expense of constructing such idiosyncratic trades has made firms reluctant to build the products that hedge funds want.
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President Donald Trump's embattled Federal Reserve board pick Stephen Moore is comparing the reaction to his nomination — which has included disclosures of sexist writings and shorting his ex-wife of more than $300,000 in a divorce payout — to the one faced by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual misconduct after being tapped for the high court.
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Comments from major investors at the CNBC/Institutional Investor's Delivering Alpha conference added fuel to an already sour mood seen in markets, with LMM chief investment officer, Bill Miller saying he'd recommend shorting the 10-year note, and Elliott Management's president, Paul Singer said the long end of the bond market was a bubble and Treasurys and other developed market bonds are not safe havens.
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TEL AVIV, Oct 3 (Reuters) - New York-based Senvest Management is shorting three drug stocks, Insys Therapeutics Inc , Akorn Inc and Fresenius SE, its chief executive Richard Mashaal said on Tuesday, Speaking at the Sohn Conference in Tel Aviv, Mashaal said he sees more downside for Insys whose drug Subsys has become the focus of several U.S. federal and state investigations amid a national opioid epidemic.
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Glen Kacher, whose Palo Alto, California-based Light Street Capital hedge fund is up 53 percent this year through October, told the Reuters Global Investment 2018 Outlook Summit on Wednesday that Square Inc's technology could mean "trouble" for cash register makers such as IBM, VeriFone Systems Inc and Ingenico Group SA. Kacher said he is shorting the stock of IBM, whose shares have already fallen 11.5 percent for the year to date.
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Full versions of the stories cited above: Amazon's next targets: FedEx and UPS The smart money on Wall Street is shorting Amazon's rivals Toymakers depend on Amazon for holiday survival A brick-and-mortar juggernaut in the Amazon economy E-commerce is concentrating jobs, not killing them Automation is raising pay before it cuts jobs Ebay: The future of retail is virtual reality Can the death of brick-and-mortar retail be stopped?
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Investors shorting Santander Brasil pay about 213.1 times what they do to bet against larger rivals Itaú Unibanco Holding SA or Banco Bradesco SA, according to data from financial bourse BM&FBovespa SA. Still, the bank's tiny free float, a large base of passive shareholders such as exchange-traded funds, and efforts by the bank's treasury to defend the stock have so far hindered short-sellers, investors such as Gustavo Gato of Explorador Capital Management LLC said.
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They were: exposing a jewelry chain as a subprime lender in disguise; shorting a maybe-fraudulent media company in Canada; and withdrawing a million-dollar cashier's check from his bank, made out to a pharmaceutical company, to be offered as a donation to the charity of its choice if it could prove to him the efficacy of a drug for multiple sclerosis, still in trials, which Left had on authority from the "rabbi of M.S." didn't work.
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Here are the reasons we listed for Spotify's decision last year around this time: List Without Selling Shares– Spotify has plent of money with $1.3 billion in cash and securities, has no debt since it converted that into equity for investors, and has positive free cash flow Liquidity – Investors and employees can sell on public market and sell at time of their choosing without investors shorting a lockup expiration, while new investors can join in Equal Access– Bankers won't get preferred access.
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