European Shorts

Shorts-Paper-Packaging

2019-04-26

Coltrane Asset Management, Millennium International Management and two Citadel entities have recently popped-up with shorts > 0.5% ("big shorts") in DS Smith Plc.* Five big shorts in packaging company, DS Smith Plc, combine for a 3.52% short interest, as of the latest disclosures. This is both the highest number of individual big …

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European Shorts

Five Funds bet against Thyssenkrupp

2019-04-17

According to our records, this is the first time that five funds simultaneously hold a short >0.5% ("big short") in Thyssenkrupp and in percent terms these are the highest short selling levels since 2012 when our records start.* As of the latest disclosures, five big shorts in Thyssenkrupp combine for a short interest of 4.09%. Assuming a …

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European Shorts

EU Short Selling Bans

2019-04-08

With Wirecard short selling ban expiring on April 18, we looked into all EU short selling bans since 2014 that we could identify. Interestingly, all of analyzed EU short selling bans were extended, in one or other way, at least once.  While each short selling ban was rather unique, it is …

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