Sentences with phrase «bet against those shares»

Smelling blood, other investment funds may also bet against those shares to make a profit.

Not exact matches

Many investors who had been betting against Fossil by selling its shares «short» had to buy up Fossil shares to cover their bet in a so - called short squeeze, compounding the impact of the strong results.

But I bet few would have expected Trump to launch into a tirade against the pharmaceutical industry early on in the presser, sending biotech shares and indices plunging across the board.

NEW YORK, April 3 - Investors raised their bets against Tesla Inc shares by 10 percent since mid-March, according to data provided by S3 Partners LLC on Tuesday, betting the market was too optimistic on the electric car maker's prospects.

NEW YORK, April 3 - Investors raised their bets against Tesla Inc shares by 10 percent since mid-March on the view that the market was too optimistic on the electric car maker's prospects, financial analytics firm S3 Partners said on Tuesday.

Ackman, who runs hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP, has been betting against Herbalife shares since 2012, claiming the company is a pyramid scheme — where new investors unwittingly fund the profits of older investors.

The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $ 1.4 billion in bets against the stock.

Short selling is 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.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

Dark pools were originally designed to let people trade shares before investors in the broader market could learn about the orders and bet against them.

While retail investors clamored for Facebook shares, some large investors were planning a massive short — essentially betting against the stock's buyers.

«These 3G guys are really about how can we extract more out of the business, and long term, that tends to not work out well for a brand,» says Horan, who is considering «shorting,» or betting against, the shares of the holding company if and when the deal closes and it hits the market.

Yet to the degree that there are many in the markets who share a similar line of thinking, it's worth registering that if you own gold, this profile and argument is essentially what you're betting against.

It is not used to shift or hedge any economic risk or as a bet against FedEx shares and, therefore, does not create any misalignment of management and stockholder interests.

And a vocal investment research firm that had bet against Valeant's shares published a report criticizing the company's accounting.

CEO Tidjane Thiam told CNBC that investors who held shares of XIV had bet against at volatility at their own risk.

That record doesn't even include earlier betting systems such as the one detailed in our 2014 MLB Betting Against the Public report which has gone 27 - 18 with +23.02 units won since it was shared nearly two yeabetting systems such as the one detailed in our 2014 MLB Betting Against the Public report which has gone 27 - 18 with +23.02 units won since it was shared nearly two yeaBetting Against the Public report which has gone 27 - 18 with +23.02 units won since it was shared nearly two years ago.

The Patriots continue to receive the lion's share of the bets this week at home against the Seahawks.

The initial profit warning on July 10th 2017 saw the share price tumble and hedge funds double down on their bets against the company's survival.

On the other hand if you trade in the short or medium term, you are betting that your opinion that XYZ shares are undervalued against other investors who think otherwise.

Alex has been an active trader for his entire adult life, beginning in the early 2000s when he successfully bet against the market on shares of WorldCom's crumbling stock.

The stock is heavily shorted with over 35 % of its available shares being borrowed and sold as a bet against the company.

The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $ 1.4 billion in bets against the stock.

Even as Facebook shares languish, however, investors aren't exactly swooping in to increase their bets against the tech giants.

Since Monday, short sellers, who profit when share prices fall, have gained about $ 1.76 billion by betting against Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google (FAANG)-- recouping almost 30 % of their losses from casting a skeptical eye over high - fly high tech stocks this year, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, Head of Predictive Analytics at S3 Partners.

Those betting against Facebook were the biggest single winners, gaining $ 471.3 million by borrowing shares of the company at a high price, and returning the stock when its value had fallen.