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One of the most famous short sellers of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) is sharing new criticism of what could be a new growth area for the electric vehicle giant. What Happened: Tesla has dominated the electric vehicle market for year and also engaged in new lines of potential growth for the business,...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) gapped up Tuesday morning after printing a second-quarter earnings beat, but slammed into resistance at the 21-day exponential moving average and sold off over 8%. The Reddit darling has squeezed shorts twice already this year but that didn’t...

The S&P 500 roared back to life on Tuesday led by Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) after the U.S. Trade Representative released a long list of exemptions from the new 10% tariffs on an additional $300 billion in Chinese imports set to go into effect on Sept. 1. Tariffs on the exempted items do not go...

It’s not shocking that Jim Chanos added to Kynikos Associates’ Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) short. Tesla has been building a long list of bears since straying from its 2017 auto schedules, and Chanos has been short the stock for nearly two years. What's shocking is why the hedge fund...

Anything but bitcoin. The cryptocurrency got little love at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference Tuesday, with JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon calling it “fraudulent” and Saba Capital Management CIO Boaz Weinstein attributing its rise to nothing beyond FOMO....

Founder of Kynikos Associates and arguably the best short seller of our times, Jim Chanos, was on Wall Street Week last Sunday to provide his insights on short selling as an investment strategy and to reveal how he manages risk while he is short on a stock. Why Short Selling? "Short selling...

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) recently came out with its first-quarter earnings, which were slightly better than the Street's estimates. While the Street was expecting the company to post a EPS loss of $0.50 on revenue of $1.04 billion, Tesla posted an EPS loss of $0.36 for the quarter on...

Founder and President of Kynikos Associates Jim Chanos appeared as a guest host on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning where he predicted bad news for global coal as the world switches to natural gas. Chanos also discussed some problems that big oil is facing, and talked about why some state-...

President of Kynikos Associates Jim Chanos offered loads of insight while he served as a guest host on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning, including a look into some of his long and short trading picks.  Starting with the ugly. "We had some data out after the [Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ)]...

According to Forbes, analyst Jonathan Krinsky of Miller Tabak recently drew an interesting parallel between four contemporary tech stocks – Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) – and the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the 1990s – Cisco (...

One country, two hedge fund legends -- two starkly different investment viewpoints. That is perhaps the best way to characterize Brazil, Bridgewater Associates and Kynikos. Brazil is Latin America's largest economy and the "B" in the ubiquitous BRIC acronym. Ray Dalio's Bridgewater is the world's...

The Royal Bank of Australia is set to release its latest interest rate decision late Monday night. At the October meeting, the Bank unexpectedly cut the benchmark cash rate to 3.25 percent from 3.5 percent. Economists are split over the rate decision, with a majority calling for a further cut of an...

Back in April 2012, the founder of hedge fund Kynikos Associates Jim Chanos gave a presentation at Grant's Spring Conference outlining "Global Value Traps." His presentation discussed a number of secular trends and then offered up a variety of short stock ideas based on these trends. The...