Short Sellers Reap $13 Billion on Gaps in Winner-Take-All Market; Bets against smaller-cap stocks pay off despite broader rally; Shows gulf that opened as big tech stocks drove market's gains
Carmen Reinicke and Alexandra Semenova - Bloomberg
Short sellers are raking in profits by betting against a part of the US equity market overlooked by most investors: small-cap stocks. The group has seen paper profits of nearly $13 billion this year by wagering on a drop in the prices of small-, micro- and nano-cap shares, according to an estimate by S3 Partners LLC based on the average amount of short positions in the market.
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Carmen Reinicke and Alexandra Semenova - Bloomberg
Short sellers are raking in profits by betting against a part of the US equity market overlooked by most investors: small-cap stocks. The group has seen paper profits of nearly $13 billion this year by wagering on a drop in the prices of small-, micro- and nano-cap shares, according to an estimate by S3 Partners LLC based on the average amount of short positions in the market.
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