{"id":298240,"date":"2025-07-28T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298240\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:32:13","slug":"short-sellers-rack-up-2-5-billion-loss-on-riskiest-us-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298240\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Sellers Rack Up $2.5 Billion Loss on Riskiest US Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It\u2019s been a brutal month for traders shorting the riskiest US stocks, and as animal spirits imbue retail investors with boundless confidence, strategists expect the misery to continue for bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">As of Thursday, investors had lost $2.5 billion in July betting against the 50 US-listed stocks with the highest short interest, according to data from S3 Partners. Doubting the hype in those firms, which include meme-stock darling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/KSS:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Kohl\u2019s Corp.<\/a>, produced four times greater losses than the average short in the US market as individual traders have pushed into a number of speculative names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a brutal month for traders shorting the riskiest US stocks, and as animal spirits imbue retail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[51,20957,108670,110483,110485,2441,110484,110481,363,110482,3741,7063,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-goldman-sachs-group-inc","10":"tag-july-sarl-caen","11":"tag-kohls-corp","12":"tag-krispy-kreme-inc","13":"tag-markets","14":"tag-opendoor-technologies-inc","15":"tag-research-corp","16":"tag-retail","17":"tag-russell-3000-index","18":"tag-sp-500-index","19":"tag-stocks","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114930407402327020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}