European Shorts

Short Selling in US-listed Chinese firms

2019-09-28

TL; DR: D1 Capital and Egerton Capital made big profits on Friday by short selling two Chinese firms listed in the US. Related stocks plunged, after media reported that, according to sources, US administration is considering delisting Chinese firms from US markets.* Chinese firms listed on US exchanges were on decline on …

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European Shorts

Who profited from NIO Inc drop?

2019-09-25

TL; DR: Egerton Capital profited from yesterday's 20.22% drop of NIO Inc stock by having a 0.52% short position. This is the only disclosed short position in NIO Inc in our records, thus, potentially making Egerton Capital the biggest winner of the plunge.* UK's Egerton Capital is up estimated $3m on …

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European Shorts

Big Greek bank short gets smaller

2019-09-23

TL; DR: We noted first National Bank of Greece short position decreases in 2019 by Oceanwood Capital. Since end of January and prior to these decreases, we recorded sixteen consecutive short position increases.* Last week, Oceanwood Capital decreased their short position in National Bank of Greece twice: on 2019-09-16. from 2.1% to 2.01%, and …

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European Shorts, Activist Shorts

Gladstone reducing short positions

2019-09-21

TL; DR: Gladstone Capital has been reducing almost all of their EU big shorts in the past two weeks. This is in strong contrast to previous 3-4 months, during which we, almost exclusively, noted many increases in Gladstone's EU short positions portfolio* Since September 6, we noted twenty short position reductions and …

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European Shorts

UK Short Selling

2019-09-04

TL; DR: Kier Group and Thomas Cook Group top our list of most shorted UK stocks. TT International holds the biggest short positions in both these stocks.* Two UK stocks with the highest short interest in our records are: Kier Group (short 11.4%, split among 6 HFs) and Thomas Cook Group …

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