Heavily shorted stocks surged again this week as retail investors revived the meme stock playbook, adding pressure to short ...

More than $560 million in crypto positions—mostly shorts—were liquidated in just one hour, with Bitcoin alone accounting for $425 million. A textbook short squeeze is unfolding as BTC rockets past ...

Small investors piled into Kohl's Tuesday and sent shares flying upwards as the department store retailer became the latest ...

However, valuation is not a reason to short a good company without a near-term downward catalyst. The reason for this can be ...

The shares of Vedanta were trading in the red on July 10, a day after the stock crashed over 8 percent intraday following ...

Over the past several weeks, short sellers were also hammered in popular retail trading names. Losses in Palantir ( PLTR ) and Hims & Hers ( HIMS ) totaled more than $2 billion.

Short interest in Palantir as a percentage of shares available to trade is about 2%, down from a high of 5% in October, according to data from S3 Partners.

A short squeeze occurs when a sudden up move in a stock causes short sellers to close their positions and cut losses, involving buying back shares and adding to the upward momentum.

Short Seller Grizzly Research issued a bearish report on Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai, raising concerns about ...

Hedge funds hesitated to short-sell for fear of making losses as investors piled in. GameStop’s boss, by contrast, simply issued new shares. Companies also operate across markets.

CRISPR Therapeutics stock is heavily shorted in the weeks going into earnings. The short-sellers are betting against the name in a big way, with more than 20 million shares sold short as of the ...